Prov 6:20-35

²⁰ My son, keep your father’s command
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
²¹ Bind them always on your heart;
fasten them around your neck.
²² When you walk, they will guide you;
when you sleep, they will watch over you;
when you awake, they will speak to you.
²³ For this command is a lamp,
this teaching is a light,
and correction and instruction
are the way to life,
²⁴ keeping you from your neighbor’s wife,
from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

²⁵ Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyes.

²⁶ For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
but another man’s wife preys on your very life.
²⁷ Can a man scoop fire into his lap
without his clothes being burned?
²⁸ Can a man walk on hot coals
without his feet being scorched?
²⁹ So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.

³⁰ People do not despise a thief if he steals
to satisfy his hunger when he is starving.
³¹ Yet if he is caught, he must pay sevenfold,
though it costs him all the wealth of his house.
³² But a man who commits adultery has no sense;
whoever does so destroys himself.
³³ Blows and disgrace are his lot,
and his shame will never be wiped away.

³⁴ For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
³⁵ He will not accept any compensation;
he will refuse a bribe, however great it is.