Proverbs 6:32
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Proverbs 6:32 in other translations
| BSB | He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself. |
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| WEB | He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul. |
| ASV | He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul. |
| YLT | He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it. |
| DARBY | Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. |
| BBE | He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul. |
| Webster | But whoever committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. |
What does Proverbs 6:32 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 6:20-35
The word of God has something to say to us upon all occasions. Let not faithful reproofs ever make us uneasy. When we consider how much this sin abounds, how heinous adultery is in its own nature, of what evil consequence it is, and how certainly it destroys the spiritual life in the soul, we shall not wonder that the cautions against it are so often repeated. Let us notice the subjects of this chapter. Let us…
Proverbs 6:32 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 6:32
- Proverbs 7:7
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
- Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- Proverbs 7:22-23
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
- Romans 1:22-24
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
- Proverbs 2:18-19
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25-26
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
- Genesis 41:39
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art:
- Exodus 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- Genesis 39:9-10
There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
- Jeremiah 5:8
They were as fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.
- Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
- Proverbs 9:4
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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Context
- Proverbs 6:31
But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
- Proverbs 6:32
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
- Proverbs 6:33
A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Proverbs 6:32 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mas el que comete adulterio con la mujer, es falto de entendimiento: corrompe su alma el que tal hace. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Celui qui commet adultère avec une femme manque de sens; celui qui le fait détruit son âme: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wer mit einem Weibe Ehebruch begeht, ist unsinnig; wer seine Seele verderben will, der tut solches. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Qui autem adulter est, propter cordis inopiam perdet animam suam; |