“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?
Psalm 101:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) I will not set before my eyes anything that is base. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cleave to me. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave to me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will set no base or wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of them who turn aside [from the right path]; it shall not grasp hold of me. American Standard Version (1901) I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me. Common English Bible I won’t set my eyes on anything worthless. I hate wrongdoing; none of that will stick to me. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not turn your face away from me. In whatever day that I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In whatever day that I will call upon you, heed me quickly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. |
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?
But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel!
They have all gone astray, they are all alike corrupt; there is none that does good, no, not one.
The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.
I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after false gods!
Even my bosom friend in whom I trusted, who ate of my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers; they twisted like a deceitful bow.
The Lord loves those who hate evil; he preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.”
they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’ ”
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel.”
He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly, who despises the gain of oppressions, who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed and shuts his eyes from looking upon evil,
But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.”
They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.
do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath, for all these things I hate, says the Lord.”
But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
but now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental spirits, whose slaves you want to be once more?
None of the devoted things shall cleave to your hand; that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers,
Take heed lest there be a base thought in your heart, and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye be hostile to your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and it be sin in you.
But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and keep their souls.
Therefore be very steadfast to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,
For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out, that it might be plain that they all are not of us.
“I repent that I have made Saul king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry; and he cried to the Lord all night.