[6:20] My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching.
[6:21] Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
[6:22] When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you.
[6:23] For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
[6:24] to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
[6:25] Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
[6:26] for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
[6:27] Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?
[6:28] Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
[6:29] So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
[6:30] People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry,
[6:31] but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.
[6:32] He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.
[6:33] He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
[6:34] For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.
[6:35] He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.