Proverbs 5:20

The English Standar Version

Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?[5]

Cross References

1 Kings 11:1

Now 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 forbidden[3] women 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 heart utter perverse things.

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a forbidden[1] woman drip honey, and her speech[2] is smoother than oil,

Proverbs 6:24

to preserve you from the evil woman,[5] from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[6]

Proverbs 7:5

to keep you from the forbidden[1] woman, from the adulteress[2] with her smooth words.

Malachi 2:14

But you say, "Why does he not?" Because the LORD was 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 the man who hates and divorces, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers[10] his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless."