Job 31:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 5:28-29 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart. 29 And if your right eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out and put it away from you; because it is better to undergo the loss of one part, than for all your body to go into hell.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. 15 Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
  • Prov 4:25 : 25 Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-4 : 2 Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. 3 And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite? 4 And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.

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