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Genesis 39:10

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

She spoke to Joseph day after day, but he did not listen to her, to lie with her or to be with her.

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Then it happened about this time that Joseph went into the house to attend to his duties, and none of the men of the house were indoors.

But he refused and said to his master's wife, See here, with me in the house my master has concern about nothing; he has put all that he has in my care.

He is not greater in this house than I am; nor has he kept anything from me except you, for you are his wife. How then can I do this great evil and sin against God?

My son, do not walk in the way with them; restrain your foot from their path;

[Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you] to deliver you from the alien woman, from the outsider with her flattering words, [Prov. 2:11.]

The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit [for ensnaring wild animals]; he with whom the Lord is indignant and who is abhorrent to Him will fall into it.

For a harlot is a deep ditch, and a loose woman is a narrow pit.

She also lies in wait as a robber or as one waits for prey, and she increases the treacherous among men.

For the lips of a loose woman drip honey as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil; [Ezek. 20:30; Col. 2:8-10; II Pet. 2:14-17.]

Let your way in life be far from her, and come not near the door of her house [avoid the very scenes of temptation], [Prov. 4:15; Rom. 16:17; I Thess. 5:19-22.]

So she caught him and kissed him and with impudent face she said to him,

That they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adventuress who flatters with and makes smooth her words.

For she sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the conspicuous places of the town,

Whoever is simple (wavering and easily led astray), let him turn in here! And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

Do not be so deceived and misled! Evil companionships (communion, associations) corrupt and deprave good manners and morals and character.

Shun immorality and all sexual looseness [flee from impurity in thought, word, or deed]. Any other sin which a man commits is one outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Abstain from evil [shrink from it and keep aloof from it] in whatever form or whatever kind it may be.

So I would have younger [widows] marry, bear children, guide the household, [and] not give opponents of the faith occasion for slander or reproach.

Shun youthful lusts and flee from them, and aim at and pursue righteousness (all that is virtuous and good, right living, conformity to the will of God in thought, word, and deed); [and aim at and pursue] faith, love, [and] peace (harmony and concord with others) in fellowship with all [Christians], who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

Beloved, I implore you as aliens and strangers and exiles [in this world] to abstain from the sensual urges (the evil desires, the passions of the flesh, your lower nature) that wage war against the soul.




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