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10 And although she spoke to Joseph day after day, he would not consent to lie beside her or to be with her.

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But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Look, with me here, my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my hand.

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Live as Servants of God

11 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and exiles to abstain from the desires of the flesh that wage war against the soul.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.11 Or one’s life

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

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33 Do not be deceived:

“Bad company ruins good morals.”

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18 Shun sexual immorality![a] Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person[b] sins against the body itself.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6.18 Or prostitution
  2. 6.18 Or the one who hires a prostitute

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

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  1. 23.27 Heb alien woman

14 The mouth of a loose woman[a] is a deep pit;
    he with whom the Lord is angry falls into it.

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  1. 22.14 Heb strange woman

16 “You who are simple, turn in here!”
    And to those without sense she says,

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14 She sits at the door of her house,
    on a seat at the high places of the town,

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13 She seizes him and kisses him,
    and with impudent face she says to him:

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that they may keep you from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.(A)

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  1. 7.5 Heb strange woman
  2. 7.5 Heb alien woman

25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,(A)
26 for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread,[a]
    but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.(B)

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  1. 6.26 Cn Compare Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb for because of a harlot to a piece of bread

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

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

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  1. 5.3 Heb strange woman

16 You will be saved from the loose woman,[a]
    from the adulteress[b] with her smooth words,(A)

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  1. 2.16 Heb strange woman
  2. 2.16 Heb alien woman

15 my child, do not walk in their way;
    keep your foot from their paths,(A)

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14 So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, and manage their households, so as to give the adversary no occasion to revile us.(A)

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