Warnings against Adultery
Proverbs 6:29
In 11 translations
- BSB
- So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
- KJV
- So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
- WEB
- So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
- ASV
- So he that goeth in to his neighbor’s wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.
- LSV
- So [is] he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, || None who touches her is innocent.
- YLT
- So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
- DBY
- So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
- DRC
- So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.
- GNV
- So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife, shall not be innocent, whosoeuer toucheth her.
- JPS
- So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not go unpunished.
- LXXE
- So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- כֵּ֗ן הַ֭בָּא אֶל־אֵ֣שֶׁת רֵעֵ֑הוּ לֹ֥א יִ֝נָּקֶ֗ה כָּֽל־הַנֹּגֵ֥עַ בָּֽהּ׃
- LXX-Br
- Οὕτως ὁ εἰσελθὼν πρὸς γυναῖκα ὕπανδρον, οὐκ ἀθωωθήσεται, οὐδὲ πᾶς ὁ ἁπτόμενος αὐτῆς.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Corinthians 7:1Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
- 2 Samuel 12:9–10Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites. Now,…
- Leviticus 20:10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of…
- Ezekiel 22:11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.
- Genesis 26:10–11“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.” So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this…
- Jeremiah 5:8–9They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife. Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?
- 2 Samuel 11:3–4So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her, and when she came to him, he slept with…
- Proverbs 16:5Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.
- Genesis 12:18–19So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife? Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
- 2 Samuel 16:21Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be…
- Genesis 20:4–7Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent? Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this…
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