Proverbs 5:20

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

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

Proverbs 22:14

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

Proverbs 23:33

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

Proverbs 5:3

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

Proverbs 6:24

to preserve you from the wife of another, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Proverbs 7:5

that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was a 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 I hate divorce, says the Lord, the God of Israel, and covering one’s garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So take heed to yourselves and do not be faithless.