25 Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty(A)
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.(B)
26 For a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[a]
but an adulteress[b] goes after a precious life.(C)
27 Can a man embrace fire[c]
and his clothes not be burned?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Or On account of a prostitute, [one is left with] only a loaf of bread
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Lit but a wife of a man
  3. Proverbs 6:27 Lit man take fire to his bosom

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