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 and said to his master's wife, "Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.

So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil,

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

She sits at the door of her house; she takes a seat on the highest places of the town,

The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

For a prostitute is a deep pit; an adulteress is a narrow well.

Or to be

my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,

Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Do not be deceived: "Bad company ruins good morals."

Abstain from every form of evil.

So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.

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

Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.