Job 31:7

Job's Final Defense Continued

⁶ let God weigh me on honest scales and he will know that I am blameless. ⁷ “If my step has turned from the way,
Or my heart followed my eyes,
Or if any spot has stuck to my hands,
⁸ then may others eat what I have sown, and may my crops be uprooted.

Turn Aside

Job

Numbers 15:39

When you look at the threads in the tassel, you will remember all Jehovah's commandments and obey them. Then you will not do whatever you want and go after whatever you see, as if you were chasing after prostitutes.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. Let your heart cheer you in your early days. Walk in the ways of your heart, and in the desires of your eyes. Yet you know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, and cleanse my hands with soap,

Job 23:11

My foot has held fast to his path. I have kept his way and not turned aside.

Psalm 44:20-21

If we forgot the name of our God or stretched out our hands to pray to another god,

Psalm 101:3

I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of unfaithful people. I want no part of it.

Isaiah 33:15

He who walks righteously and speaks what is right, who rejects gain from extortion and keeps his hand from accepting bribes, who stops his ears against plots of murder and shuts his eyes against contemplating evil.

Ezekiel 6:9

Then those who escape will remember me among the nations where they are taken captive. I was hurt by their adulterous hearts, which turned away from me, and by their eyes, which lusted after idols. They will hate themselves for the evil and disgusting things that they have done.

Ezekiel 14:3

Son of man, these people are devoted to their idols. They allow themselves to sin. Should they be allowed to ask me for anything?

Ezekiel 14:7

Suppose an Israelite or a foreigner who lives in Israel deserts me by devoting himself to idols and by allowing himself to sin. If he goes to a prophet to ask for my help, I, Jehovah, will give him an answer.

Matthew 5:29

If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away! It is better to lose a part of your body then to have your whole body destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom.