Matthew 5:28 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁸ “But I say to you that everyone looking at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ but I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ But I say to you that everyone who so much as looks at a woman with evil desire for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Common English Bible

²⁸ But I say to you that every man who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery in his heart.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:28 Cross References

Genesis 34:2

And Sheḵem, son of Ḥamor the Ḥiwwite, prince of the land, saw her and took her and lay with her, and humbled her.

2 Samuel 11:2

And it came to be, at evening time, that Dawiḏ rose up from his bed and walked about on the roof of the sovereign’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very good to look at.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze at a maiden?

Job 31:9

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbour’s door,

Psalm 119:96

I have seen an end of all perfection; Your command is exceedingly broad.

Exodus 20:17

“You do not covet your neighbour’s house, you do not covet your neighbour’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbour.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her prettiness in your heart, Neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Ezekiel 23:16

“As soon as her eyes saw them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Kasdima.

Leviticus 18:20

‘And do not have intercourse with the wife of your neighbour, to defile yourself with her.

Matthew 15:19

“For out of the heart come forth wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whorings, thefts, false witnessings, slanders.

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that whoever is wroth with his brother without a cause shall be liable to judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raka!’ shall be liable to the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be liable to fire of GĕHinnom.

Matthew 5:39

but I say to you, do not resist the wicked. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the Torah is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.

Deuteronomy 22:22

“When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ĕl.

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes filled with an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable beings, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

1 John 2:16

Because all that is in the world – the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life – is not of the Father but is of the world.