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What does Proverbs 6:28 mean?
"Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?"
— Proverbs 6:28 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?
Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.
Men don’t despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.
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