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King James Version

Proverbs 6:29

So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Women;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Adultery;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So it is with the one who sleeps withanother man’s wife;no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Hebrew Names Version
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
English Standard Version
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
New Century Version
The same is true if you have sexual relations with another man's wife. Anyone who does so will be punished.
New English Translation
So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
Amplified Bible
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoever touches her will not be found innocent or go unpunished.
New American Standard Bible
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoever touches her will not go unpunished.
World English Bible
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife, shall not be innocent, whosoeuer toucheth her.
Legacy Standard Bible
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife;Whoever touches her will not go unpunished.
Berean Standard Bible
So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Contemporary English Version
And if you go to bed with another man's wife, you pay the price.
Complete Jewish Bible
So is he who has sex with his neighbor's wife; anyone touching her will be punished.
Darby Translation
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Easy-to-Read Version
If you sleep with another man's wife, you will be punished.
George Lamsa Translation
So is he who goes in to his neighbors wife and touches her; he shall not be innocent.
Good News Translation
Lexham English Bible
Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.
Literal Translation
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; everyone touching her shall not be innocent.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Euen so, who so euer goeth in to his neghbours wife, and toucheth her, can not be vngiltie.
American Standard Version
So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; Whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.
Bible in Basic English
So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not go unpunished.
King James Version (1611)
So he that goeth in to his neighbours wife; whosoeuer toucheth her, shall not be innocent.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Euen so, whosoeuer goeth in to his neyghbours wife and toucheth her, can not be vngiltie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.
English Revised Version
So he that goeth in to his nieghbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be unpunished.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
So he that entrith to the wijf of his neiybore; schal not be cleene, whanne he hath touchid hir.
Update Bible Version
So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.
Webster's Bible Translation
So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
New King James Version
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
New Living Translation
So it is with the man who sleeps with another man's wife. He who embraces her will not go unpunished.
New Life Bible
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will be punished.
New Revised Standard
So is he who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So, he that goeth in unto his neighbour's wife, no man shall be guiltless who toucheth her!
Douay-Rheims Bible
So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.
Revised Standard Version
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
Young's Literal Translation
So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife; Whoever touches her will not go unpunished.

Contextual Overview

20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. 26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life. 27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

he that: Genesis 12:18, Genesis 12:19, Leviticus 20:10, 2 Samuel 11:3, 2 Samuel 11:4, 2 Samuel 12:9, 2 Samuel 12:10, 2 Samuel 16:21, Jeremiah 5:8, Jeremiah 5:9, Ezekiel 22:11, Malachi 3:5

toucheth: Genesis 20:4-7, Genesis 26:10, Genesis 26:11, 1 Corinthians 7:1

Reciprocal: Genesis 12:15 - taken Genesis 39:8 - refused Genesis 39:9 - how then Leviticus 18:20 - General Ruth 2:9 - touch thee Job 31:11 - an heinous Proverbs 5:9 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So he that goeth into his neighbour's wife,.... To converse with her, or lie with her, as the Targum; for it means not barely going into her house or chamber, or into her company, though without any ill design at first, which yet may be dangerous; but committing adultery with her, as this phrase is often used, Genesis 19:31;

whosoever toucheth her; by impure dalliances, and especially by carnal copulation with her, in which sense it is used, Genesis 19:31- :;

shall not be innocent; or free r from disgrace and infamy, from loss of substance or health; from punishment in this life, either by the jealous husband or civil magistrate; and in the world to come by the Lord himself; for "whoremongers and adulterers God will judge",

Hebrews 13:4.

r לא ינקח "non insons, vel immunis", Schultens; so Gejerus.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 6:29. So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife — As sure as he who takes fire into his bosom, or who walks upon live coals, is burnt thereby; so sure he that seduces his neighbour's wife shall be guilty. That is, he shall be punished.


 
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