Proverbs 6:26
For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
In context
23 For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life, 24 keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.
25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. 26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life. 27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? 28 Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?
29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Compare in other versions
- KJV King James Version
— Proverbs 6:26 in the KJV
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.
- ESV English Standard Version
— Proverbs 6:26 in the ESV
for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.