Matthew 5:28

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But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 Job Vindicates Himself“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;
  • 2 Sam 11:2 : 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 because all that is in the world(the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who ruled that area, saw her, he grabbed her, forced himself on her, and sexually assaulted her.
  • Gen 39:7-9 : 7 Soon after these things, his master’s wife took notice of Joseph and said,“Come to bed with me.” 8 But he refused, saying to his master’s wife,“Look, my master does not give any thought to his household with me here, and everything that he owns he has put into my care. 9 There is no one greater in this household than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?” 10 Even though she continued to speak to Joseph day after day, he did not respond to her invitation to go to bed with her. 11 One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house. 12 She grabbed him by his outer garment, saying,“Come to bed with me!” But he left his outer garment in her hand and ran outside. 13 When she saw that he had left his outer garment in her hand and had run outside, 14 she called for her household servants and said to them,“See, my husband brought in a Hebrew man to us to humiliate us. He tried to go to bed with me, but I screamed loudly. 15 When he heard me raise my voice and scream, he left his outer garment beside me and ran outside.” 16 So she laid his outer garment beside her until his master came home. 17 This is what she said to him:“That Hebrew slave you brought to us tried to humiliate me, 18 but when I raised my voice and screamed, he left his outer garment and ran outside.” 19 When his master heard his wife say,“This is the way your slave treated me,” he became furious. 20 Joseph’s master took him and threw him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined. So he was there in the prison. 21 But the LORD was with Joseph and showed him kindness. He granted him favor in the sight of the prison warden. 22 The warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care. He was in charge of whatever they were doing. 23 The warden did not concern himself with anything that was in Joseph’s care because the LORD was with him and whatever he was doing the LORD was making successful.
  • Exod 20:17 : 17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
  • Job 31:9 : 9 If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,
  • Ps 119:96 : 96 I realize that everything has its limits, but your commands are beyond full comprehension.
  • Matt 5:22 : 22 But I say to you that anyone who is angry with a brother will be subjected to judgment. And whoever insults a brother will be brought before the council, and whoever says‘Fool’ will be sent to fiery hell.
  • Matt 5:39 : 39 But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.
  • 2 Pet 2:14 : 14 Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!
  • Rom 7:7-8 : 7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! Certainly, I would not have known sin except through the law. For indeed I would not have known what it means to desire something belonging to someone else if the law had not said,“Do not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of wrong desires. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
  • Rom 7:14 : 14 For we know that the law is spiritual– but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.
  • Matt 7:28-29 : 28 When Jesus finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed by his teaching, 29 because he taught them like one who had authority, not like their experts in the law.

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    27Adultery“You have heard that it was said,‘Do not commit adultery.’

  • Prov 6:25-26
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    25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

    26for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

  • Matt 5:29-33
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    29If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

    30If your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away! It is better to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into hell.

    31Divorce“It was said,‘Whoever divorces his wife must give her a legal document.’

    32But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

    33Oaths“Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’

  • Deut 5:18
    76%

    18You must not commit adultery.

  • Prov 6:32
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    32A man who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense, whoever does it destroys his own life.

  • Exod 20:14
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    14“You shall not commit adultery.

  • Jas 2:10-11
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    10For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

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  • Mark 10:11-12
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    11So he told them,“Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her.

    12And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

  • Prov 6:29
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    29So it is with the one who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

  • Matt 19:9
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    9Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

  • Luke 16:18
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    18“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries someone else commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

  • Matt 5:21
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    21Anger and Murder“You have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not murder,’ and‘whoever murders will be subjected to judgment.’

  • Mark 7:21-22
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    21For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

    22adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

  • Rom 2:22
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    22You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

  • Matt 15:19
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    19For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

  • Num 5:12-13
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    12“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘If any man’s wife goes astray and behaves unfaithfully toward him,

    13and a man goes to bed with her, for sexual relations, without her husband knowing it, and it is hidden that she has defiled herself, since there was no witness against her, nor was she caught–

  • Num 5:29
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    29“‘This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

  • Job 31:1
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    1Job Vindicates Himself“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?

  • Matt 18:9
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    9And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into fiery hell.

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    33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things.

  • John 8:4
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    4and said to Jesus,“Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

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    20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself and some man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you….”

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    47If your eye causes you to sin, tear it out! It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

  • Ezek 18:15
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    15He does not eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains, does not pray to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor’s wife,

  • Lev 20:10
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    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

  • Matt 5:38
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    38Retaliation“You have heard that it was said,‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

  • Matt 19:18
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  • Prov 4:25
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    25Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

  • Matt 6:21-23
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    21For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

    22“The eye is the lamp of the body. If then your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

    23But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

  • Gal 5:19
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    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

  • Jer 3:2
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    2“Look up at the hilltops and consider this. Where have you not been ravished? You waited for those gods like a thief lying in wait in the wilderness. You defiled the land by your wicked prostitution to other gods.

  • Eph 5:28
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    28In the same way husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

  • Deut 5:21
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    21You must not desire another man’s wife, nor should you crave his house, his field, his male and female servants, his ox, his donkey, or anything else he owns.”

  • Lev 18:20
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    20You must not have sexual relations with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

  • Mark 5:32
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    32But he looked around to see who had done it.

  • Luke 11:34
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    34Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but when it is diseased, your body is full of darkness.

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18Flee sexual immorality!“Every sin a person commits is outside of the body”– but the immoral person sins against his own body.