Biblia Todo Logo
Cross References
- Advertisements -




Genesis 39:7

The English Standar Version

And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, "Lie with me."

See the chapter Copy

19 Cross References  

the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

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

"I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.

My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

So you will be delivered from the forbidden[1] woman, from the adulteress[2] with her smooth words,

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,

for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,[7] but a married woman[8] hunts down a precious life.

She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him,

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and the spring rain has not come; yet you have the forehead of a whore; you refuse to be ashamed.

At the head of every street you built your lofty place and made your beauty an abomination, offering yourself[6] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.

Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband!

So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

For all that is in the world -- the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions -- is not from the Father but is from the world.




Follow us:

Advertisements


Advertisements