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passing along the street near her corner,
    taking the road to her house(A)

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23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; and have mercy on still others with fear, hating even the tunic defiled by their bodies.[a](A)

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  1. 23 Gk by the flesh

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

12 now in the street, now in the squares,
    and at every corner she lies in wait.(A)

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

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14 Do not enter the path of the wicked,
    and do not walk in the way of evildoers.(A)
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
    turn away from it and pass on.

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It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.(A) David sent someone to inquire about the woman. It was reported, “This is Bathsheba daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”(B)

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Samson and Delilah

16 Once Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to her.

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