Judges 14:17

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

Adam wasn’t deceived, but the woman, being deceived, has fallen into disobedience;

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; so death passed to all men, because all sinned.

When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”

At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.

Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”

For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ.

The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

To Adam he said, “Because you have listened to your wife’s voice, and ate from the tree, about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ the ground is cursed for your sake. You will eat from it with much labor all the days of your life.

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies. Now please tell me how you might be bound.”

When she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, his soul was troubled to death.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”

But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

“Son of man, behold, I will take away from you the desire of your eyes with a stroke: yet you shall neither mourn nor weep, neither shall your tears run down.

“You, son of man, shouldn’t it be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their heart, their sons and their daughters,

But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.

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 some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

He said to him, “Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken.

The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go unless you bless me.”

Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and what you might be bound to afflict you.”

Delilah said to Samson, “Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound.” He said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the fabric on the loom.”

But he refused, and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he listened to their voice. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

Hear me, Yahweh, hear me, that this people may know that you, Yahweh, are God, and that you have turned their heart back again.”

The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

One day Elisha went to Shunem, where there was a prominent woman; and she persuaded him to eat bread. So it was, that as often as he passed by, he turned in there to eat bread.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

They sent to me four times like this; and I answered them the same way.

It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts.” Job did so continually.

But stretch out your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce you to your face.”

Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”

“How long will you torment me, and crush me with words?

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

so that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant.”

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit. He who is under Yahweh’s wrath will fall into it.

A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Don’t be overly righteous, neither make yourself overly wise. Why should you destroy yourself?

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

“When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?”

“ ‘ “How weak is your heart,” says the Lord Yahweh, “since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.

God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the vine?” He said, “I am right to be angry, even to death.”

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

Don’t trust in a neighbor. Don’t put confidence in a friend. With the woman lying in your embrace, be careful of the words of your mouth!

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God;’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?

If your eye causes you to stumble, cast it out. It is better for you to enter into God’s Kingdom with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna of fire,

He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

I tell you, although he will not rise and give it to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence, he will get up and give him as many as he needs.

“The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

They urged him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over.” He went in to stay with them.

When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, “If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and stay.” So she persuaded us.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

Now I beg you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, that you strive together with me in your prayers to God for me,

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me.

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;

to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.