Proverbs 5:20

New International Reader's Version

My son, why be captured by another man’s wife? Why hug a woman who has gone astray?

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many women besides Pharaoh’s daughter. They were from other lands. They were Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a woman who commits adultery is like a deep pit. Any man the Lord is angry with falls into it.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange sights. Your mind will imagine weird things.

Proverbs 5:3

A woman who commits adultery has lips that drip honey. What she says is smoother than olive oil.

Proverbs 6:24

It keeps you from your neighbor’s wife. It keeps you from the smooth talk of a woman who commits adultery.

Proverbs 7:5

They will keep you from a woman who commits adultery. They will keep you from the smooth talk of a sinful wife.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why?” It’s because the Lord is holding you responsible. He watches how you treat the wife you married when you were young. You have been unfaithful to her. You did it even though she’s your partner. You promised to stay married to her. And the Lord was a witness to it.

Malachi 2:16

“Suppose a man hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord God of Israel. “Then he is harming the one he should protect,” says the Lord who rules over all. So be careful. And don’t be unfaithful.