When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
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!
They even sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and behold, they came. For them you bathed yourself, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. You sat on a stately couch, with a table spread before it on which you had placed my incense and my oil.
You also took your beautiful jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself images of men, and with them played the whore.
Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart utter perverse things.
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant for three years. Then he turned and rebelled against him.
It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
And after a time his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph and said, “Lie with me.”
the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
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