Proverbs 9:17

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 sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.

He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

For the law produces wrath, for where there is no law, neither is there disobedience.

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

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.”

The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.

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.

I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride. I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink, yes, drink abundantly, beloved.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

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.”

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

The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

“So is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth, and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

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.

“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.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

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

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

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.

They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

The men were afraid, because they were brought to Joseph’s house; and they said, “Because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time, we’re brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, attack us, and seize us as slaves, along with our donkeys.”

When the children of Israel saw it, they said to one another, “What is it?” For they didn’t know what it was. Moses said to them, “It is the bread which Yahweh has given you to eat.

and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;

So David hid himself in the field. When the new moon had come, the king sat himself down to eat food.

David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

For you did this secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.’ ”

When Jezebel heard that Naboth had been stoned, and was dead, Jezebel said to Ahab, “Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give you for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.”

But he went in, and stood before his master. Elisha said to him, “Where did you come from, Gehazi?” He said, “Your servant went nowhere.”

the food of his table, the seating of his servants, the attendance of his ministers, their clothing, his cup bearers also, their clothing, and his ascent by which he went up to Yahweh’s house; there was no more spirit in her.

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

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will see me.’ He disguises his face.

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, even he who can’t keep his soul alive.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.

“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!

Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

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

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways,

Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I can’t see him?” says Yahweh. “Don’t I fill heaven and earth?” says Yahweh.

“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?”

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

Ephraim said, “Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won’t find in me any iniquity that is sin.”

Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:

Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.

Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You said it.”

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

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,

If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.

The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly;

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

So now it is no more I that do it, but sin which dwells in me.

When he had given thanks, he broke it and said, “Take, eat. This is my body, which is broken for you. Do this in memory of me.”

For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.