Genesis 39:7

Joseph In Potiphar's House

⁶ So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s charge; and with Joseph there he did not [need to] pay attention to anything except the food he ate.

Now Joseph was handsome and attractive in form and appearance. ⁷ Then after a time his master’s wife looked at Joseph with desire, and she said, “Lie with me.” ⁸ But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me in the house, my master does not concern himself with anything; he has put everything that he owns in my charge.

Lifted Up

Joseph

2 Samuel 13:11

When she brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come, lie with me, my sister.”

Genesis 6:2

that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful and desirable; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose and desired.

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant (agreement) with my eyes;
How then could I gaze [lustfully] at a virgin?

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes away from vanity [all those worldly, meaningless things that distract—let Your priorities be mine],
And restore me [with renewed energy] in Your ways.

Proverbs 2:16

To keep you from the immoral woman;
From the seductress with her flattering words,

Proverbs 5:9

Or you will give your honor to others,
And your years to the cruel one,

Proverbs 7:13

So she caught him and kissed him
And with a brazen and impudent face she said to him:

Proverbs 7:15-18

“So I came out to meet you [that you might share with me the feast of my offering],
Diligently I sought your face and I have found you.

Jeremiah 3:3

“Therefore the showers have been withheld,
And there has been no spring rain.
Yet you have the forehead (appearance) of a prostitute;
You refuse to be ashamed.

Ezekiel 16:25

At the beginning of every street you built your high place and made your beauty repulsive; and you offered your body to every passer-by and multiplied your obscene immorality.

Ezekiel 16:32

You adulterous wife, who welcomes and receives strangers instead of her husband!

Ezekiel 16:34

And you are different from other [unfaithful] women in your promiscuity, in that no one follows you to lure you into prostitution, and because you give money and no money is given you; in this way you are different.”

Ezekiel 23:5-6

“Oholah played the prostitute while she was Mine; and she adored and lusted after her lovers (allies), the Assyrians, her neighbors,

Ezekiel 23:12-16

She lusted after the Assyrians—governors and officials, her neighbors, magnificently clothed, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

Matthew 5:28

but I say to you that everyone who [so much as] looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

2 Peter 2:14

They have eyes full of adultery, constantly looking for sin, enticing and luring away unstable souls. Having hearts trained in greed, [they are] children of a curse.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one’s resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world.