Proverbs 6:29 {30}
Good News Translation
It is just as dangerous to sleep with another man's wife. Whoever does it will suffer.

New Revised Standard Version
So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Contemporary English Version
And if you go to bed with another man's wife, you pay the price.

New American Bible
So with him who sleeps with another’s wife— none who touches her shall go unpunished.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:

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Genesis 12:18,19 And Pharao called Abram, and said to him: What is this that thou hast done to me? Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife? . . .

Leviticus 20:10 If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

2 Samuel 11:3,4 And the king sent, and inquired who the woman was. And it was told him, that she was Bethsabee the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Urias the Hethite. . . .

2 Samuel 12:9,10 Why therefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord, to do evil in my sight? Thou hast killed Urias the Hethite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. . . .

2 Samuel 16:21 And Achitophel said to Absalom: Go in to the concubines of thy father, whom he hath left to keep the house: that when all Israel shall hear that thou hast disgraced thy father, their hands may be strengthened with thee.

Jeremiah 5:8,9 They are become as amorous horses and stallions: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife. . . .

Ezekiel 22:11 And every one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife, and the father in law hath wickedly defiled his daughter in law, the brother hath oppressed his sister the daughter of his father in thee.

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

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Genesis 20:4-7 Now Abimelech had not touched her, and he said: Lord, wilt thou slay a nation that is ignorant and just? . . .

Genesis 26:10,11 And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying: . . .

1 Corinthians 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Context
Warnings Against Adultery
28So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her. 29The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:30And if he be taken, he shall restore sevenfold, and shall give up all the substance of his house.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; neither shalt thou desire his wife, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is his.

Leviticus 18:20
Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife: nor be defiled with mingling of seed.

Proverbs 6:28
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.

Proverbs 16:5
Every proud man is an abomination to the Lord: though hand should be joined to hand, he is not innocent. The beginning of a good way is to do justice: and this is more acceptable with God, than to offer sacrifices.

Ezekiel 18:6
And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman:

Ezekiel 33:26
You stood on your swords, you have committed abominations, and every one hath defiled his neighbours wife; and shall you possess the land by inheritance?

Proverbs 6:28
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