Matthew 5:28

New Century Version

But I tell you that if anyone looks at a woman and wants to sin sexually with her, in his mind he has already done that sin with the woman.

Cross References

Genesis 34:2

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the ruler of the land, saw her, he took her and forced her to have sexual relations with him.

2 Samuel 11:2

One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. While he was on the roof, he saw a woman bathing. She was very beautiful.

Job 31:1

“But I made an agreement with my eyes not to look with desire at a girl.

Job 31:9

“If I have desired another woman or have waited at my neighbor’s door for his wife,

Psalm 119:96

Everything I see has its limits, but your commands have none.

Exodus 20:17

“You must not want to take your neighbor’s house. You must not want his wife or his male or female slaves, or his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Proverbs 6:25

Don’t desire her because she is beautiful. Don’t let her capture you by the way she looks at you.

Ezekiel 23:16

When she saw them, she wanted to have sexual relations with them and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.

Leviticus 18:20

“ ‘You must not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and make yourself unclean with her.

Matthew 15:19

Out of the mind come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and speaking evil of others.

Matthew 5:22

But I tell you, if you are angry with a brother or sister, you will be judged. If you say bad things to a brother or sister, you will be judged by the council. And if you call someone a fool, you will be in danger of the fire of hell.

Matthew 5:39

But I tell you, don’t stand up against an evil person. If someone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other cheek also.

Romans 7:14

We know that the law is spiritual, but I am not spiritual since sin rules me as if I were its slave.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is found having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the woman and the man who had sexual relations with her must die. Get rid of this evil from Israel.

2 Peter 2:14

Every time they look at a woman they want her, and their desire for sin is never satisfied. They lead weak people into the trap of sin, and they have taught their hearts to be greedy. God will punish them!

1 John 2:16

These are the ways of the world: wanting to please our sinful selves, wanting the sinful things we see, and being too proud of what we have. None of these come from the Father, but all of them come from the world.