Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Numbers 15:39
You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness.
Joshua 7:21
I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath."
2 Samuel 11:2
One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive.
Job 31:1
"I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?
Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.
Proverbs 23:5
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
Isaiah 33:15
The one who lives uprightly and speaks honestly; the one who refuses to profit from oppressive measures and rejects a bribe; the one who does not plot violent crimes and does not seek to harm others --
Matthew 5:28
But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16
because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.

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Proverbs 4:25
Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.
Proverbs 23:31
Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

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