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You shall not commit adultery. |
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Adultery. |
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Adultery. |
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You shall not commit adultery |
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One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful.... |
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Desire! |
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Lust! |
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David sent messengers to get her. |
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She came to him, and he slept with her. |
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Each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, |
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By his own evil desire, |
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By his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. |
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Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. |
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"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' But I tell you |
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But I tell you |
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But I tell you |
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that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. |
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Lustfully. |
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With impure intention. |
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With carnal desire. |
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That anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. |
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How about a woman? |
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Can she sin with lust, too? |
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Now Joseph was well-built and handsome, and after a while his master's wife took notice of Joseph and said, "Come to bed with me!" |
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With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning.... |
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But it can't be a sin just to look, can it? |
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Can it? |
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From within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, |
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Greed, malice, deceit, |
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Lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. |
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All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.' |
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? |
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I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, |
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To reward a man according to his conduct, |
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and according to the fruit of his doings. |
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"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' |
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But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully |
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has already committed adultery with her in his heart. |
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"I made a covenant with my eyes," said Job, "not to look lustfully at a girl." |
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If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. |
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It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. |
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And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. |
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It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. |
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You shall not covet your neighbor's house. |
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You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, |
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Or his manservant |
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Or his maidservant, |
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His ox or donkey, |
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Or anything that belongs to your neighbor. |
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You shall not commit adultery |
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With your body |
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Or your eyes |
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Or your heart |
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No, not at all. |
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For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world. |
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The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. |
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Purify my looking, Lord. |
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Purify my desires, Father. |
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Purify my heart, Jesus. |
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That I might please You. |
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That WE might please You. |
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