Proverbs 6:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁶ for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious 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 out to the members of her household and said to them, “See, my husband 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 on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”

Proverbs 23:28

She lies in wait like a robber and increases the number of the faithless.

Proverbs 29:3

A child who loves wisdom makes a parent glad, but a companion of prostitutes destroys wealth.

Proverbs 29:8

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

Proverbs 5:10

and strangers take their fill of your wealth, 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 fire be carried in the bosom without burning one’s clothes?

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.

Ezekiel 13:18

and say: Thus says the Lord God: Woe to the women who sew bands on all wrists and make veils for the heads of persons of every height, in the hunt for lives! Will you hunt down lives among my people and maintain your own lives?

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have uttered falsehood and envisioned lies, I am against you, says the Lord God.

Luke 15:30

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

1 Samuel 2:36

Everyone who is left in your family shall come and prostrate himself before him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, ‘Please put me in one of the priest’s places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.’ ”