I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maiden?
Psalm 101:3 - King James 2000 I will set no wicked thing before my eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave to me. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will set no base or wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of them who turn aside [from the right path]; it shall not grasp hold of me. American Standard Version (1901) I will set no base thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; It shall not cleave unto me. Common English Bible I won’t set my eyes on anything worthless. I hate wrongdoing; none of that will stick to me. Catholic Public Domain Version Do not turn your face away from me. In whatever day that I am in trouble, incline your ear to me. In whatever day that I will call upon you, heed me quickly. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Turn not away thy face from me: in the day when I am in trouble, incline thy ear to me. In what day soever I shall call upon thee, hear me speedily. |
I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think upon a maiden?
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that does good, no, not one.
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.
[To the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.] I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked are before me.
Blessed is that man that makes the LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Yea, my own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, who did eat of my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
Yea, they turned back and tested God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
You that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserves the souls of his saints; he delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.
You shall not covet your neighbor's house, you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor any thing that is your neighbor's.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
He winks with his eyes, he signals with his feet, he motions with his fingers;
Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her allure you with her eyelids.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and grasping after the wind.
Get out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of oppressions, that keeps his hands from the holding of bribes, that stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from seeing evil;
But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, says the LORD.
But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
But now, after you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
And there shall cleave none of the accursed thing to your hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion upon you, and multiply you, as he has sworn unto your fathers;
Beware that there be not a thought in your wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and your eye be evil against your poor brother, and you give him nothing; and he cries unto the LORD against you, and it be sin in you.
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Be you therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you turn not aside from it to the right hand or to the left;
For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments. And it grieved Samuel; and he cried unto the LORD all night.