Proverbs 6:26 - Revised Standard Version

²⁶ for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress stalks and snares [as with a hook] the precious life [of a man].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Common English Bible

²⁶ for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for a man’s very life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

Proverbs 6:26 Cross References

Genesis 39:14

she called to the men of her household and said to them, “See, he has brought among us a Hebrew to insult us; he came in to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice;

Genesis 39:7

And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and said, “Lie with me.”

Proverbs 23:28

She lies in wait like a robber and increases the faithless among men.

Proverbs 29:3

He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but one who keeps company with harlots squanders his substance.

Proverbs 29:8

Scoffers set a city aflame, but wise men turn away wrath.

Proverbs 5:10

lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;

Proverbs 5:9

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Ezekiel 13:18

and say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew magic bands upon all wrists, and make veils for the heads of persons of every stature, in the hunt for souls! Will you hunt down souls belonging to my people, and keep other souls alive for your profit?

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have uttered delusions and seen lies, therefore behold, I am against you, says the Lord God.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living with harlots, you killed for him the fatted calf!’

1 Samuel 2:36

And every one who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, and shall say, “Put me, I pray you, in one of the priest's places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.” ’ ”