Matthew 5:28

New American Standard Bible 2020

but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Cross References

Genesis 34:2

When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her and raped her.

2 Samuel 11:2

Now at evening time David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; How then could I look at a virgin?

Job 31:9

¶“If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,

Psalm 119:96

I have seen a limit to all perfection; Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

Exodus 20:17

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male slave, or his female slave, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

Ezekiel 23:16

And when she saw them she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

Leviticus 18:20

And you shall not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, acts of adultery, other immoral sexual acts, thefts, false testimonies, and slanderous statements.

Matthew 5:22

But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be answerable to the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be answerable to the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

Matthew 5:39

But I say to you, do not show opposition against an evil person; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other toward him also.

Romans 7:14

For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold into bondage to sin.

Deuteronomy 22:22

“If a man is found sleeping with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who slept with the woman, and the woman; so you shall eliminate the evil from Israel.

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having hearts trained in greed, accursed children;

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.