Matthew 5:28

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Summary

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

That

Hath

Psalm 119:96

Romans 7:7

General references

Bible References

That

When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

It came about after these events that his master’s wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, “Lie with me.”

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes;
How then could I gaze at a virgin?

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,

Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust.

having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Hath

I have seen a limit to all perfection;
Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

What shall we say then? Is the Law sin? May it never be! On the contrary, I would not have come to know sin except through the Law; for I would not have known about coveting if the Law had not said, “You shall not

covet.”

General references

“You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

‘You shall not commit adultery.

Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;