Proverbs 6:26

New American Bible - revised edition

For the price of a harlot may be scarcely a loaf of bread, But a married woman is a trap for your precious life.

Cross References

Genesis 39:14

she cried out to her household servants and told them, “Look! My husband has brought us a Hebrew man to mock us! He came in here to lie with me, but I cried out loudly.

Genesis 39:7

After a time, his master’s wife looked at him with longing and said, “Lie with me.”

Proverbs 23:28

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the number of the faithless.

Proverbs 29:3

Whoever loves wisdom gives joy to his father, but whoever consorts with harlots squanders his wealth.

Proverbs 29:8

Scoffers enflame the city, but the wise calm the fury.

Proverbs 5:10

Lest outsiders take their fill of your wealth, and your hard-won earnings go to another’s house;

Proverbs 5:9

Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to a merciless one;

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man take embers into his bosom, and his garments not be burned?

Proverbs 7:23

till an arrow pierces its liver; Like a bird that rushes into a snare, unaware that his life is at stake.

Ezekiel 13:18

You shall say, Thus says the Lord God: Woe to those who sew amulets for the wrists of every arm and make veils for every head size to snare lives! You ensnare the lives of my people, even as you preserve your own lives!

Ezekiel 13:8

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have spoken falsehood and seen lying visions, therefore, for certain I am coming at you—oracle of the Lord God.

Luke 15:30

But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’

1 Samuel 2:36

Then whoever is left of your family will grovel before him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread, saying: Please assign me a priestly function, that I may have a crust of bread to eat.”