And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.
But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Abstain from every form of evil.
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.
The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.
to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” And to him who lacks sense she says,
She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,
She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him,
So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
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