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

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As she spake

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

It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,
from a stranger with her flattering talk,

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are smoother than oil,

Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

She will keep you from a forbidden woman,
a stranger with her flattering talk.

She sits by the doorway of her house,
on a seat at the highest point of the city,

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;
a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.

For a prostitute is a deep pit,
and a stranger is a narrow well;

Or to be

my son, don’t travel that road with them
or set foot on their path,

Keep your way far from her.
Don’t go near the door of her house.

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

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

Stay away from every kind of evil.

Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.

Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Dear friends, I urge you as strangers and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires that war against you.