Proverbs 6:26 Cross References - ISV

²⁶ because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread, and an adulterous woman stalks a man’s precious life.

¹⁴ and yelled for her household servants. “Look!” she cried out. “My husband brought in a Hebrew man to humiliate us. He came in here to have sex with me, but I screamed out loud!

³⁶ Anyone who remains in your family will come and prostrate themselves before him for a small wage or a loaf of bread and will say, “Please put me in one of the priest’s offices so I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

¹⁰ so that strangers don’t enrich themselves at your expense, and your work won’t end up the possession of foreigners.

²³ until an arrow pierces his liver. As a bird darts into a snare, he doesn’t realize his fatal decision.

³ The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father, but anyone who consorts with immoral women squanders his wealth.

⁸ Scornful men enflame a city, but the wise defuse anger.

⁸ “‘Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, “Because you’ve spoken falsehood and deceptions, I am therefore opposing you,” declares the Lord GOD.

¹⁸ Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says, “How terrible it will be for those women who sew magical bracelets on all their wrists and make one-size-fits all headbands, in order to entrap their souls. Will you hunt for the souls of my people and remain alive?

¹³ A few days later, the younger son gathered everything he owned and traveled to a distant country. There he wasted it all on wild living. ¹⁴ After he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need. ¹⁵ So he went out to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

³⁰ But this son of yours spent your money on prostitutes, and when he came back, you killed the fattened calf for him!’