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10 She kept putting pressure on Joseph day after day, but he refused to sleep with her, and he kept out of her way as much as possible.

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10 And though she spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused(A) to go to bed with her or even be with her.

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But Joseph refused. “Look,” he told her, “my master trusts me with everything in his entire household.

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But he refused.(A) “With me in charge,” he told her, “my master does not concern himself with anything in the house; everything he owns he has entrusted to my care.(B)

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11 Dear friends, I warn you as “temporary residents and foreigners” to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.

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Living Godly Lives in a Pagan Society

11 Dear friends,(A) I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,(B) to abstain from sinful desires,(C) which wage war against your soul.(D)

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22 Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.

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22 Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love(A) and peace, along with those who call on the Lord(B) out of a pure heart.(C)

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22 Stay away from every kind of evil.

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22 reject every kind of evil.

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33 Don’t be fooled by those who say such things, for “bad company corrupts good character.”

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33 Do not be misled:(A) “Bad company corrupts good character.”[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:33 From the Greek poet Menander

18 Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.

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18 Flee from sexual immorality.(A) All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.(B)

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27 A prostitute is a dangerous trap;
    a promiscuous woman is as dangerous as falling into a narrow well.

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27 for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,(A)
    and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

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14 The mouth of an immoral woman is a dangerous trap;
    those who make the Lord angry will fall into it.

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14 The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;(A)
    a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.(B)

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16 “Come in with me,” she urges the simple.
    To those who lack good judgment, she says,

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16     “Let all who are simple come to my house!”
To those who have no sense(A) she says,

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14 She sits in her doorway
    on the heights overlooking the city.

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14 She sits at the door of her house,
    on a seat at the highest point of the city,(A)

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13 She threw her arms around him and kissed him,
    and with a brazen look she said,

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13 She took hold of him(A) and kissed him
    and with a brazen face she said:(B)

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Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,
    from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.

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They will keep you from the adulterous woman,
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words.(A)

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