Proverbs 5:20

English Standard Version 2016

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Cross References

Proverbs 7:5

to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

Proverbs 6:24

to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

1 Kings 11:1

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

Malachi 2:14

But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Malachi 2:16

“For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”