she caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me.” But he left his garment in her hand and fled and got out of the house.
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him, “I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.
And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.
save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body. And they seized him, but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.
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.
“How sick is your heart, declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
As Samuel turned to go away, Saul seized the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
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