Proverbs 6:27 {28}
Good News Translation
Can you carry fire against your chest without burning your clothes?

New Revised Standard Version
Can fire be carried in the bosom without burning one’s clothes?

Contemporary English Version
If you carry burning coals, you burn your clothes;

New American Bible
Can a man take embers into his bosom, and his garments not be burned?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?

Job 31:9-12 If my heart hath been deceived upon a woman, and if I have laid wait at my friend's door: . . .

Hosea 7:4-7 They are all adulterers, like an oven heated by the baker: the city rested a little from the mingling of the leaven, till the whole was leavened. . . .

James 3:5 Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

Context
Warnings Against Adultery
26Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn? 27Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?28So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.…
Cross References
Proverbs 6:26
Can a man hide fire in his bosom, and his garments not burn?

Proverbs 6:28
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife, shall not be clean when he shall touch her.

Proverbs 6:26
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