Proverbs 6:25

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Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Kgs 9:30 : 30 Jehu approached Jezreel. When Jezebel heard the news, she put on some eye liner, fixed up her hair, and leaned out the window.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  • 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.
  • 2 Sam 11:2-5 : 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. 3 So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger said,“Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” 4 David sent some messengers to get her. She came to him and he went to bed with her.(Now at that time she was in the process of purifying herself from her menstrual uncleanness.) Then she returned to her home. 5 The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying,“I’m pregnant.”
  • Isa 3:16 : 16 Washing Away Impurity The LORD says,“The women of Zion are proud. They walk with their heads high and flirt with their eyes. They skip along and the jewelry on their ankles jingles.
  • Song 4:9 : 9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

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    24by keeping you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the loose woman.

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    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.

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    19a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.

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  • Prov 7:5-6
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    8Keep yourself far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

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  • Matt 5:27-28
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    25Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

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    2in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.

    3For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey, and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,

  • Prov 6:29
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  • Prov 6:4
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    4Permit no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

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    32“‘Adulterous wife, who prefers strangers instead of her own husband!

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    18You must not commit adultery.

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    9You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

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