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the price of a loaf of bread

This is talking about the material cost, not the spiritual cost or the moral cost. Alternate translation: "a little bit"

may cost you your very life

Possible meanings are 1) the wife of another man will destroy your life because she always wants more or 2) the husband of the other woman will hunt you down and kill you.