Proverbs 5:20

New International Version

Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women besides Pharaoh’s daughter—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites.

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit; a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.

Proverbs 23:33

Your eyes will see strange sights, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;

Proverbs 6:24

keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

Proverbs 7:5

They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why?” It is because the Lord is the witness between you and the wife of your youth. You have been unfaithful to her, though she is your partner, the wife of your marriage covenant.

Malachi 2:16

“The man who hates and divorces his wife,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “does violence to the one he should protect,” says the Lord Almighty. So be on your guard, and do not be unfaithful.