Proverbs 6:29 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none 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.

Proverbs 6:29 Cross References

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

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.

Proverbs 16:5

Every one who is arrogant is an abomination to the Lord; be assured, he will not go unpunished.

2 Samuel 16:21

Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father's concubines, whom he has left to keep 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.”

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.

Exodus 20:17

“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Leviticus 18:20

And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.

Proverbs 6:28

Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?

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 in her time of impurity,

Ezekiel 33:26

You resort to the sword, you commit abominations and each of you defiles his neighbor's wife; shall you then possess the land?

Genesis 20:2

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

2 Samuel 11:27

And 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.