Parallel Verses
Amplified
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
Whoever touches her
King James Version
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Holman Bible
another man’s wife;
no one who touches her will go unpunished.
International Standard Version
So also is it with someone who has sex with his neighbor's wife; anyone touching her will not remain unpunished.
A Conservative Version
So [is] he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her shall not be unpunished.
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.
Darby Translation
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Julia Smith Translation
So he going in to his neighbor's wife; all touching upon her shall not be innocent
King James 2000
So is he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whosoever touches her shall not be innocent.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.
Modern King James verseion
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so, whosoever goeth in to his neighbour's wife, and toucheth her, can not be unguilty.
NET Bible
So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor's wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.
New Heart English Bible
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
The Emphasized Bible
So, he that goeth in unto his neighbour's wife, no man shall be guiltless who toucheth her!
Webster
So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
World English Bible
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
Youngs Literal Translation
So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 6:29
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning Against Relations With A Married Woman
28
Or can a man walk on hot coals
And his feet not be scorched?
So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
Whoever touches her will not be found innocent or go unpunished.
People do not despise a thief if he steals
To satisfy himself when he is hungry;
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Genesis 12:18-19
Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Genesis 20:4-7
Now Abimelech had not yet come near her; so he said, “Lord, will you kill a people who are righteous and innocent and blameless [regarding Sarah]?
Genesis 26:10-11
Abimelech said, “What is this that you have done to us? One of the men [among our people] might easily have been intimate with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us [before God].”
Leviticus 20:10
‘The man who commits adultery with another’s wife, even his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall most certainly be put to death.
2 Samuel 11:3-4
David sent word and inquired about the woman. Someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”
2 Samuel 12:9-10
Why have you despised the word of the Lord by doing evil in His sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife. You have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
2 Samuel 16:21
Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s
Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud and arrogant in heart is disgusting and exceedingly offensive to the Lord;
Be assured he will not go unpunished.
Jeremiah 5:8-9
“They were like well-fed, lusty stallions,
Each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.
Ezekiel 22:11
In you one has committed a shameful act with his neighbor’s wife, another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law, and another has violated his sister, his father’s daughter.
Malachi 3:5
“Then I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, and against those who oppress the laborer in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and against those who turn away the alien [from his right], and those who do not fear Me [with awe-filled reverence],” says the Lord of hosts.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now as to the matters of which you wrote: It is good (beneficial, advantageous) for a man not to touch a woman [outside marriage].