Matthew 5:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

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  • 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.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
  • 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 : 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.
  • 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.
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.
  • Gen 39:7-9 : 7 And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover. 8 But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control; 9 So that no one has more authority in this house than I have; he has kept nothing back from me but you, because you are his wife; how then may I do this great wrong, sinning against God? 10 And day after day she went on requesting Joseph to come to her and be her lover, but he would not give ear to her. 11 Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside. 12 And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away. 13 And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat, 14 She sent for the men of her house and said to them, See, he has let a Hebrew come here and make sport of us; he came to my bed, and I gave a loud cry; 15 And hearing it he went running out without his coat. 16 And she kept his coat by her, till his master came back. 17 Then she gave him the same story, saying, The Hebrew servant whom you have taken into our house came in to make sport of me; 18 And when I gave a loud cry he went running out without his coat. 19 And hearing his wife's account of what his servant had done, he became very angry. 20 And Joseph's master took him and put him in prison, in the place where the king's prisoners were kept in chains, and he was there in the prison-house. 21 But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend. 22 And the keeper of the prison put all the prisoners under Joseph's control, and he was responsible for whatever was done there. 23 And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.
  • Exod 20:17 : 17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
  • Job 31:9 : 9 If my heart went after another man's wife, or if I was waiting secretly at my neighbour's door;
  • Ps 119:96 : 96 I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be in danger of being judged; and he who says to his brother, Raca, will be in danger from the Sanhedrin; and whoever says, You foolish one, will be in danger of the hell of fire.
  • Matt 5:39 : 39 But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
  • Rom 7:7-8 : 7 What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's. 8 But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.
  • Matt 7:28-29 : 28 And it came about, when Jesus had come to the end of these words, that the people were surprised at his teaching, 29 for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

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  • Matt 5:27
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    27You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:

  • Prov 6:25-26
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    78%

    25Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Matt 5:29-33
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    29And 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.

    30And if your right hand is a cause of trouble to you, let it be cut off 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.

    31Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:

    32But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

    33Again, you have knowledge that it was said in old times, Do not take false oaths, but give effect to your oaths to the Lord:

  • Deut 5:18
    76%

    18Do not be false to the married relation.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.

  • Exod 20:14
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    14Do not be false to the married relation.

  • Jas 2:10-11
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    10For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

    11For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.

  • Mark 10:11-12
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    73%

    11And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and takes another, is false to his wife;

    12And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.

  • Prov 6:29
    73%

    29So 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.

  • Matt 19:9
    72%

    9And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

  • Luke 16:18
    72%

    18Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.

  • Matt 5:21
    71%

    21You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:

  • Mark 7:21-22
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    71%

    21Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

    22The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

  • Rom 2:22
    71%

    22You who say that a man may not be untrue to his wife, are you true to yours? you who are a hater of images, do you do wrong to the house of God?

  • Matt 15:19
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    19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

  • Num 5:12-13
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    71%

    12Say to the children of Israel, If any man's wife does wrong, sinning against him

    13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;

  • Num 5:29
    71%

    29This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;

  • Job 31:1
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    1I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?

  • Matt 18:9
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    9And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • John 8:4
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    4And putting her forward, they said to him, Master, this woman has been taken in the very act of sinning against the married relation.

  • Num 5:20
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    20But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover:

  • Mark 9:47
    70%

    47And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out: it is better for you to go into the kingdom of God with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into hell,

  • Ezek 18:15
    70%

    15Who has not taken the flesh with the blood for food, or given worship to the images of the children of Israel, and has not had connection with his neighbour's wife,

  • Lev 20:10
    70%

    10And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

  • Matt 5:38
    70%

    38You have knowledge that it was said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

  • Ezek 16:32
    69%

    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Matt 19:18
    69%

    18He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness,

  • Prov 4:25
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    25Keep your eyes on what is in front of you, looking straight before you.

  • Matt 6:21-23
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    69%

    21For where your wealth is, there will your heart be.

    22The light of the body is the eye; if then your eye is true, all your body will be full of light.

    23But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

  • Gal 5:19
    69%

    19Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

  • Jer 3:2
    69%

    2Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

  • Eph 5:28
    69%

    28Even so it is right for husbands to have love for their wives as for their bodies. He who has love for his wife has love for himself:

  • Deut 5:21
    69%

    21Or let your desire be turned to your neighbour's wife, or his house or his field or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is your neighbour's.

  • Lev 18:20
    69%

    20And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

  • Jas 1:15
    69%

    15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

  • Mark 5:32
    69%

    32And on his looking round to see her who had done this thing,

  • Luke 11:34
    68%

    34The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
    68%

    18Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.