Proverbs 4:25

I will set no vile thing before my eyes. I hate the deeds of faithless men. They will not cling to me.

He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. Lead me in a straight path, because of my enemies.

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

Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

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.

See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way.

He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

It shall be to you for a fringe, that you may see it, and remember all Yahweh’s commandments, and do them; and that you don’t follow your own heart and your own eyes, after which you used to play the prostitute;

Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.

My soul is laid low in the dust. Revive me according to your word!

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

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.

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.

Then he said to Gehazi, “Tuck your cloak into your belt, take my staff in your hand, and go your way. If you meet any man, don’t greet him; and if anyone greets you, don’t answer him again. Then lay my staff on the child’s face.”

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a straight way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our possessions.

Behold, I long for your precepts! Revive me in your righteousness.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

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

“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

He said to them, “When I sent you out without purse, wallet, and sandals, did you lack anything?” They said, “Nothing.”

Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” Laban said, “Speak on.”

He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

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

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

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.”

Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.

David said to Ahimelech, “Isn’t there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk; and send rain on your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

Then she saddled a donkey, and said to her servant, “Drive, and go forward! Don’t slow down for me, unless I ask you to.”

Lead me, Yahweh, in your righteousness because of my enemies. Make your way straight before my face.

In you, Yahweh, I take refuge. Let me never be disappointed. Deliver me in your righteousness.

He will repay the evil to my enemies. Destroy them in your truth.

My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.

Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.

Honor your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the earth.

So we will not turn away from you. Revive us, and we will call on your name.

Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!

The earth is full of your loving kindness, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.

Revive me, Yahweh, for your name’s sake. In your righteousness, bring my soul out of trouble.

to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,

For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me,

lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

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

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

On the day of our king, the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine. He joined his hand with mockers.

For this is he who was spoken of by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness, make the way of the Lord ready! Make his paths straight!”

He commanded them that they should take nothing for their journey, except a staff only: no bread, no wallet, no money in their purse,

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,

They went out, and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had come on them. They said nothing to anyone; for they were afraid.

Carry no purse, nor wallet, nor sandals. Greet no one on the way.

I find then the law that, to me, while I desire to do good, evil is present.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

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

You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.