Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.

New American Standard Bible

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

King James Version

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Holman Bible

Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

International Standard Version

Do not focus on her beauty in your mind, nor allow her to take you prisoner with her flirting eyes,

A Conservative Version

Do not lust after her beauty in thy heart, nor let her take thee with her eyelids.

American Standard Version

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Amplified


Do not desire (lust after) her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her capture you with her eyelashes.

Darby Translation

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;

Julia Smith Translation

Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.

King James 2000

Lust not after her beauty in your heart; neither let her allure you with her eyelids.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not desire her beauty in your heart; may she not capture you with her eyelashes.

Modern King James verseion

Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; nor let her take you with her eyelids.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

New Heart English Bible

Do not lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

The Emphasized Bible

Do not covet her beauty, in thy heart, neither let her take thee, by her eyelashes;

Webster

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

World English Bible

Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חמד 
Chamad 
Usage: 30

יפי 
Yophiy 
Usage: 19

לבב 
Lebab 
Usage: 251

לקח 
Laqach 
Usage: 966

References

American

Eye

Hastings

Context Readings

Commandment And Instruction As Guardians

24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman. 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner. 26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.


Cross References

2 Kings 9:30

And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.

2 Samuel 11:2-5

Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

Song of Songs 4:9

You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!

Isaiah 3:16

Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:

James 1:14-15

But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.

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