Proverbs 6:20-29

Christian Standard Bible

²⁰ My son, keep your father’s command,
and don’t reject your mother’s teaching.^(A)
21 Always bind them to your heart;
tie them around your neck.^(B)
22 When you walk here and there, they will guide you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
when you wake up, they will talk to you.
²³ For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,^(C)
and corrective discipline is the way to life.^(D)
24 They will protect you from an evil woman,^[a]
from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.^(E)
25 Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty^(F)
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.^(G)
26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,^[b]
but the wife of another man^[c] goes after a precious life.^(H)
27 Can a man embrace fire
and his clothes not be burned?
²⁸ Can a man walk on burning coals
without scorching his feet?
²⁹ So it is with the one who sleeps with
another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.^(I)