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

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

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25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

26 For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread,
    but another man’s wife preys on your very life.(A)

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Keep to a path far from her,(A)
    do not go near the door of her house,

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For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,
    and her speech is smoother than oil;(A)

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16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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15 my son, do not go along with them,
    do not set foot(A) on their paths;(B)

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14 So I counsel younger widows to marry,(A) to have children, to manage their homes and to give the enemy no opportunity for slander.(B)

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