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32 But the man who commits adultery is an utter fool,
    for he destroys himself.

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32 But a man who commits adultery(A) has no sense;(B)
    whoever does so destroys himself.

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32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

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I saw some naive young men,
    and one in particular who lacked common sense.

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I saw among the simple,
    I noticed among the young men,
    a youth who had no sense.(A)

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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

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Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

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Marriage should be honored by all,(A) and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.(B)

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Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies.

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22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools(A) 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images(B) made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

24 Therefore God gave them over(C) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.(D)

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22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

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21 Listen, you foolish and senseless people,
    with eyes that do not see
    and ears that do not hear.

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21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people,(A)
    who have eyes(B) but do not see,
    who have ears but do not hear:(C)

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21 Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:

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25 I searched everywhere, determined to find wisdom and to understand the reason for things. I was determined to prove to myself that wickedness is stupid and that foolishness is madness.

26 I discovered that a seductive woman[a] is a trap more bitter than death. Her passion is a snare, and her soft hands are chains. Those who are pleasing to God will escape her, but sinners will be caught in her snare.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:26 Hebrew a woman.

25 So I turned my mind to understand,
    to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(A)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
    and the madness of folly.(B)

26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,(C)
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.(D)

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25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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22 He followed her at once,
    like an ox going to the slaughter.
He was like a stag caught in a trap,[a]
23     awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart.
He was like a bird flying into a snare,
    little knowing it would cost him his life.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:22 As in Greek and Syriac versions; Hebrew reads slaughter, as shackles are for the discipline of a fool.

22 All at once he followed her
    like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer[a] stepping into a noose[b](A)
23     till an arrow pierces(B) his liver,
like a bird darting into a snare,
    little knowing it will cost him his life.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool
  2. Proverbs 7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

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18 Entering her house leads to death;
    it is the road to the grave.[a]
19 The man who visits her is doomed.
    He will never reach the paths of life.

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  1. 2:18 Hebrew to the spirits of the dead.

18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(A)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.(B)

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18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

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14 “You must not commit adultery.

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14 Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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