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Genesis 39:7

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then after a time his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lie with me.

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The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair, and they took wives of all they desired and chose.

And when she brought them to him, he took hold of her and said, Come lie with me, my sister.

I DICTATED a covenant (an agreement) to my eyes; how then could I look [lustfully] upon a girl?

Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity (idols and idolatry); and restore me to vigorous life and health in Your ways.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. [Ps. 1:1; Eph. 5:11.]

[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.]

Lest you give your honor to others and your years to those without mercy,

For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread, and the adulteress stalks and snares [as with a hook] the precious life [of a man].

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

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no spring rain. Yet you have the brow of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

At every crossway you built your high place [for idol worship] and have made your beauty an abomination [abhorrent, loathsome, extremely disgusting, and detestable]; and you have made your body available to every passerby and multiplied your [idolatry and spiritual] harlotry.

Rather, you were as an adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband!

And you are different [the reverse] from other women in your harlotries, in that nobody follows you to lure you into harlotry and in that you give hire when no hire is given you; and so you are different.

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.

They have eyes full of harlotry, insatiable for sin. They beguile and bait and lure away unstable souls. Their hearts are trained in covetousness (lust, greed), [they are] children of a curse [exposed to cursing]!

For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one's own resources or in the stability of earthly things]–these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].




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