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32 But he who commits adultery has no sense;
    he who does it destroys himself.(A)

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and I saw among the simple ones,
    I observed among the youths,
    a young man without sense,(A)

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Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.(A)

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22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23 and they exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling a mortal human or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.(A)

24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.(B)

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21 Hear this, O foolish and senseless people,
    who have eyes but do not see,
    who have ears but do not hear.(A)

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25 I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.(A) 26 I found more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, whose heart is nets, whose hands are fetters; one who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.(B)

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22 Right away he follows her
    and goes like an ox to the slaughter
or bounds like a stag toward the trap[a]
23     until an arrow pierces its entrails.
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
    not knowing that it will cost him his life.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 7.22 Cn Compare Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain

18 for her way[a] leads down to death
    and her paths to the shades;(A)
19 those who go to her never come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

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  1. 2.18 Cn: Heb house

14 “You shall not commit adultery.(A)

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39 So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has shown you all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you.

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He is not greater in this house than I am, nor has he kept back anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God?”(A) 10 And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not consent to lie beside her or to be with her.

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11     prostitution.

The Idolatry of Israel

Wine and new wine
    take away the understanding.(A)
12 My people consult a piece of wood,
    and their divining rod gives them oracles.
For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray,
    and they have prostituted themselves, forsaking their God.(B)

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31 Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me, and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?(A)

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They were well-fed lusty stallions,
    each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.(A)

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16 “You who are simple, turn in here!”
    And to those without sense she says,
17 “Stolen water is sweet,
    and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”(A)
18 But they do not know that the dead[a] are there,
    that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.(B)

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  1. 9.18 Heb shades

“You who are simple, turn in here!”
    To those without sense she says,(A)

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36 but those who miss me injure themselves;
    all who hate me love death.”(A)

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22 The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them,
    and they are caught in the coils of their sin.(A)
23 They die for lack of discipline,
    and because of their great folly they are lost.(B)

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I will destroy you, O Israel;
    who can help you?[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 13.9 Gk Syr: Heb for in me is your help