Job 31:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Job 31:1

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

A covenant

1 John 2:16

Think

Proverbs 6:25

James 1:14

General references

Proverbs 4:25

Bible References

A covenant

the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took unto them wives, which they best liked among them all.

And it chanced in an evening that David arose from his couch and walked upon the roof of the king's palace; and from the roof saw a very beautiful woman washing herself. And he sent to enquire what woman it should be.

O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

Look not thou upon the wine, how red it is, and what a color it giveth in the glass.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a wife lusting after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For all that is in the world - as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of goods - are not of the father: but of the world.

Think

that thou lust not after her beauty in thine heart, and lest thou be taken with her fair looks.

But every man is tempted, drawn away, and enticed of his own concupiscence.

General references

Let thine eyes behold the thing that is right, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.