Proverbs 6:26
“For by meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life.”
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Proverbs 6:26 Context
24To keepe thee from the euill woman, from the flatterie of the tongue of a strange woman. 25Lust not after her beautie in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26For by meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteresse will hunt for the precious life. 27Can a man take fire in his bosome, and his clothes not be burnt? 28Can one goe vpon hote coales, and his feete not be burnt?
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For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
- King James Version
For on account of a harlot {one is reduced} to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.
- New American Standard Version (1995)