Proverbs 5:20

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and 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 will fall 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 evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress.

Proverbs 7:5

to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord was witness to the covenant 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.”