Proverbs 5:20

Bible in Basic English 1965

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

Proverbs 5:3

For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

Proverbs 6:24

They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

Proverbs 7:5

So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

Malachi 2:14

But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.

Malachi 2:16

For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and against him who is clothed with violent acts, says the Lord of armies: so give thought to your spirit and do not be false in your acts.