Psalms 101:3

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

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way. Walk in it.”

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

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

“Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose confidence is in Yahweh.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

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 the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

For there also must be factions among you, that those who are approved may be revealed among you.

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

My little children, let’s not love in word only, or with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

“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.”

In his day you shall give him his wages, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor and sets his heart on it; lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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.

Yahweh was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him in his heart.

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.

But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” Samuel prayed to Yahweh.

Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul king over Israel.

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.

When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and adorned her head, and looked out at the window.

because they turned away from following him, and wouldn’t pay attention to any of his ways,

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn away to lies.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

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.”

However God’s firm foundation stands, having this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his,” and, “Let every one who names the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.”

Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.

You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.

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;

and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

“The whole congregation of Yahweh says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against Yahweh?

When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Yahweh would not pardon.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Oh taste and see that Yahweh is good. Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him.

He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

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

The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.

Yahweh says: “Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor. Do no wrong. Do no violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

in pureness, in knowledge, in perseverance, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in sincere love,

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

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

Beware that there not be a wicked thought in your heart, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand,” and your eye be evil against your poor brother and you give him nothing; and he cry to Yahweh against you, and it be sin to you.

“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Get out of the way. Turn away from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.”

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—

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’ ”

Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand, that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy, and have compassion on you and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers,

Samuel said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. You have indeed done all this evil; yet don’t turn away from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

“It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He didn’t turn away from it, doing that which was right in Yahweh’s eyes. However the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of Yahweh’s house, and repaired them.

if my step has turned out of the way, if my heart walked after my eyes, if any defilement has stuck to my hands,

They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”

They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

but turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were twisted like a deceitful bow.

You who love Yahweh, hate evil! He preserves the souls of his saints. He delivers them out of the hand of the wicked.

Through your precepts, I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face. Should I be inquired of at all by them?

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

But this you have, that you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.