Proverbs 5:20

New English Translation

But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,

Proverbs 6:24

by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

Proverbs 7:5

so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

Malachi 2:14

Yet you ask, “Why?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law.

Malachi 2:16

“I hate divorce,” says the Lord God of Israel, “and the one who is guilty of violence,” says the Lord who rules over all. “Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.”