Psalm 119:37

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Psalm 119:37

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

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Proverbs 4:25

Proverbs 23:31

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And the guard shall be unto you to look upon it, that ye remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them: that ye seek not a way after your own hearts and after your own eyes, for to go a whoring after them:

I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundredth sicles of silver, and a tongue of gold of fifty sicles weight: and I coveted them, and I took them. And behold they lie hid in the earth in my tent and the silver thereunder."

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.

I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not look upon a damsel.

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

Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.

He that leadeth a godly life - say I - and speaketh the truth; He that abhorreth to do violence and deceit; he that keepeth his hand that he touch no reward; which stoppeth his ears, that he hear no counsel against the innocent; which holdeth down his eyes, that he see none evil.

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.

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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.