Obey Parental Commands and the Dangers of Adultery
Proverbs 6:20-35
20My son, keep the commandment of your father, and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.21Bind them continually upon your heart; bind them upon your neck.22When you walk, it will lead you; when you lie down, it will guard you; and when you awake, it will speak to you.23For the commandment is a lamp and the instruction is light, and the way of life the arguments of discipline.24To keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the foreigner.25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her eyelids captivate you.26For on account of a fornicating woman one goes as far as a loaf of bread, and the wife of a man hunts a precious life.27Can a man carry fire in his bosom without his garments being burned?28If a man walks upon hot coals, will his feet not be scorched?29So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.30People do not despise a thief who steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry.31Yet if he is caught, he must repay sevenfold; he will give all the substance of his house.32He who commits adultery with a woman lacking sense destroys his own life.33He will meet with plague and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.34For jealousy is the fury of a husband, and he will not spare on the day of vengeance.35He will accept no ransom, nor will he be willing, however great the bribe.