Genesis 39:7

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Summary

Genesis 39:7

And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

Cast

1 John 2:16

Lie

Bible References

Cast

that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.

"I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.

Oholah played the prostitute when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians [her] neighbors,

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

Lie

When she had brought them near to him to eat, he took hold of her, and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister!"

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.