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, "Look, my master {does not worry about} what [is] in the house, and everything he owns he has put in my hand.

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.

Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

She sits at the door of her house, upon a throne [at the] high places of town,

A deep pit is the mouth of an {adulteress}, [he with whom] Yahweh is angry will fall there.

For a deep pit is a prostitute, and a narrow well is {an adulteress}.

Or to be

My child, do not walk in their way. Keep your foot from their paths,

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

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality 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 marry, to bear children, to manage a household, to give the adversary no opportunity for reproach.

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Dear friends, I urge [you] as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your soul,