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

and he refuseth, and saith unto his lord's wife, 'Lo, my lord hath not known what is with me in the house, and all that he hath he hath given into my hand;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil is her mouth,

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

And she hath sat at the opening of her house, On a throne -- the high places of the city,

A deep pit is the mouth of strange women, The abhorred of Jehovah falleth there.

For a harlot is a deep ditch, And a strange woman is a strait pit.

Or to be

My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,