25 (A)Do not lust after her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
26 For (B)by means of a harlot
A man is reduced to a crust of bread;
(C)And [a]an adulteress will (D)prey upon his precious life.
27 Can a man take fire to his bosom,
And his clothes not be burned?

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Wife of another, lit. a man’s wife

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