Bible verse
For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
Proverbs 6:26 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 6.
22 When you walk, they will guide you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.
23 For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
24 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.
27 Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
28 Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
29 So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
30 Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger.
KJV
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.
ASV
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
ERV
For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
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