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Proverbs 6:22-32 Common English Bible (CEB)

22. When you walk around, they will lead you;when you lie down, they will protect you;when you awake, they will occupy your attention.

23. The commandment is a lamp and instruction a light;corrective teaching is the path of life.

24. They guard you from the evil woman,from the flattering tongue of the foreign woman.

25. Don’t desire her beauty in secret;don’t let her take you in with her eyelashes,

26. for a prostitute costs a loaf of bread,but a married woman hunts for a man’s very life.

27. Can a man scoop fire into his lapand his clothes not get burned?

28. If a man walks on hot coals,don’t his feet get burned?

29. So is the man who approaches his neighbor’s wife;anyone who touches her will be punished.

30. People don’t despise a thief if he stealsto fill his starving stomach.

31. But if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold;he must give all the riches of his house.

32. He who commits adultery is senseless.Doing so, he destroys himself.

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