Proverbs 6:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ So he who cohabits with his neighbor's wife [will be tortured with evil consequences and just retribution]; he who touches her shall not be innocent or go unpunished.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ So he that goeth in to his neighbor’s wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.

Common English Bible

²⁹ So is the man who approaches his neighbor’s wife; anyone who touches her will be punished.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ So also, he who enters to the wife of his neighbor shall not be clean when he touches her.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.

Proverbs 6:29 Cross References

Genesis 20:2

Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” And King Abimelech of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

2 Samuel 11:27

When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord,

2 Samuel 16:21

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, the ones he has left to look after the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

Exodus 20:17

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Proverbs 16:5

All those who are arrogant are an abomination to the Lord; be assured, they will not go unpunished.

Proverbs 6:28

Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet?

Ezekiel 18:6

if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period,

Ezekiel 22:11

One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you defiles his sister, his father’s daughter.

Ezekiel 33:26

You depend on your swords, you commit abominations, and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife; shall you then possess the land?

Leviticus 18:20

You shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

Leviticus 20:10

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”