Proverbs 6:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁶ For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man  goes after a precious life.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: And the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress stalks and snares [as with a hook] the precious life [of a man].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Common English Bible

²⁶ for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for a man’s very life.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

Proverbs 6:26 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 39:14

she called her household servants. ‘Look,’ she said to them, ‘my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.

Genesis 39:7

After some time his master’s wife looked longingly at Joseph and said, ‘Sleep with me.’

Proverbs 23:28

indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber and increases the number of unfaithful people.

Proverbs 29:3

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.

Proverbs 29:8

Mockers inflame a city, but the wise turn away anger.

Proverbs 5:10

strangers will drain your resources, and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

Proverbs 5:9

Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to others and your years to someone cruel;

Proverbs 6:27

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces its   liver, like a bird darting into a snare   – he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.

Ezekiel 13:18

Say, “This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the women who sew magic bands on the wrist of every hand and who make veils for the heads of people of every size in order to ensnare lives. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?

Ezekiel 13:8

‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: You have spoken falsely and had lying visions; that’s why you discover that I am against you. This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets   with prostitutes,   you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.”

1 Samuel 2:36

Anyone who is left in your family will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread. He will say: Please appoint me to some priestly office so I can have a piece of bread to eat.” ’