10 And as she spoke to Joseph day after day, he (A)would not listen to her, to lie beside her or to be with her.

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But he refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and (A)he has put everything that he has in my charge.

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11 Beloved, I urge you (A)as sojourners and exiles (B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, (C)which wage war against your soul.

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22 So (A)flee (B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with (C)those who call on the Lord (D)from a pure heart.

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33 (A)Do not be deceived: (B)“Bad company ruins good morals.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:33 Probably from Menander's comedy Thais

18 (A)Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin[a] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person (B)sins against his own body.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Or Every sin

27 For a prostitute is (A)a deep pit;
    (B)an adulteress[a] is a narrow (C)well.

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  1. Proverbs 23:27 Hebrew a foreign woman

14 The mouth of (A)forbidden[a] women is (B)a deep pit;
    (C)he with whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

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  1. Proverbs 22:14 Hebrew strange

16 (A)“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!”
    And to him who lacks sense she says,

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14 She sits at the door of her house;
    she takes a seat on (A)the highest places of the town,

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13 She seizes him and kisses him,
    and with (A)bold face she says to him,

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to keep you from (A)the forbidden[a] woman,
    from (B)the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.

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  1. Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew strange
  2. Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman

25 (A)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her (B)eyelashes;
26 for (C)the price of a prostitute is only (D)a loaf of bread,[a]
    but a married woman[b] (E)hunts down a precious life.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:26 Or (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate) for a prostitute leaves a man with nothing but a loaf of bread
  2. Proverbs 6:26 Hebrew a man's wife

Keep your way far from her,
    and do not go near the door of her house,

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For the lips of (A)a forbidden[a] woman drip honey,
    and her speech[b] is (B)smoother than oil,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:3 Hebrew strange; also verse 20
  2. Proverbs 5:3 Hebrew palate

16 So (A)you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
    from (B)the adulteress[b] with (C)her smooth words,

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  1. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
  2. Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman

15 my son, (A)do not walk in the way with them;
    (B)hold back your foot from their paths,

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14 So I would have (A)younger widows marry, bear children, (B)manage their households, and (C)give the adversary no occasion for slander.

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