Genesis 39:10

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Summary

And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

As she spake

Or to be

Bible References

As she spake

But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in the house, and he has put all that he owns in my charge.

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the

adulteress who flatters with her words;

For the lips of an

adulteress drip honey

And smoother than oil is her speech;

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,

Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

That they may keep you from an adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

She sits at the doorway of her house,
On a seat by the high places of the city,

The mouth of

an adulteress is a deep pit;

He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.

For a harlot is a deep pit
And an

adulterous woman is a narrow well.

Or to be

My son, do not walk in the way with them.

Keep your feet from their path,

Keep your way far from her

And do not go near the door of her house,

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”

abstain from every form of evil.

Therefore, I want younger widows to get married, bear children, keep house, and give the enemy no occasion for reproach;

Now flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Beloved, I urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which wage war against the soul.