Matthew 5:28

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Summary

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

That

Hath

Psalm 119:96

Romans 7:7

General references

Bible References

That

and Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the land, seeth her, and taketh her, and lieth with her, and humbleth her;

And it cometh to pass after these things, that his lord's wife lifteth up her eyes unto Joseph, and saith, 'Lie with me;'

Thou dost not desire the house of thy neighbour, thou dost not desire the wife of thy neighbour, or his man-servant, or his handmaid, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which is thy neighbour's.'

and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,

A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what -- do I attend to a virgin?

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

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

because all that is in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

Hath

Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad is Thy command -- exceedingly!

What, then, shall we say? the law is sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

General references

'Thou dost not commit adultery.

'And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

'Thou dost not commit adultery.

See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.