I will not set before my eyes
    anything (A)that is worthless.
I hate the work of those who (B)fall away;
    it shall not cling to me.

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I will not look with approval
    on anything that is vile.(A)

I hate what faithless people do;(B)
    I will have no part in it.

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37 (A)Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
    and (B)give me life in your ways.

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37 Turn my eyes away from worthless things;
    preserve my life(A) according to your word.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 119:37 Two manuscripts of the Masoretic Text and Dead Sea Scrolls; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text life in your way

Job's Final Appeal

31 “I have made a covenant with my (A)eyes;
    how then could I gaze at a virgin?

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31 “I made a covenant with my eyes(A)
    not to look lustfully at a young woman.(B)

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13 Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. 14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire (A)when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and (B)sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

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13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own(A) evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;(B) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.(C)

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28 But I say to you that (A)everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(A)

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It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on (A)the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this (B)Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of (C)Uriah the Hittite?”

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One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof(A) of the palace. From the roof he saw(B) a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba,(C) the daughter of Eliam(D) and the wife of Uriah(E) the Hittite.”

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25 (A)Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
    and do not let her capture you with her (B)eyelashes;

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

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17 (A)“You shall not covet (B)your neighbor's house; (C)you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

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17 “You shall not covet(A) your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

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Blessed is the man who (A)makes
    the Lord his trust,
who does not turn to the proud,
    to those who (B)go astray after a lie!

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Blessed is the one(A)
    who trusts in the Lord,(B)
who does not look to the proud,(C)
    to those who turn aside to false gods.[a](D)

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  1. Psalm 40:4 Or to lies

20 And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet (A)do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. 21 And (B)do not turn aside after (C)empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

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20 “Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “You have done all this evil;(A) yet do not turn away from the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart. 21 Do not turn away after useless(B) idols.(C) They can do you no good, nor can they rescue you, because they are useless.

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21 For (A)it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from (B)the holy commandment delivered to them.

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21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.(A)

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But now that you have come to know God, or rather (A)to be known by God, (B)how can you turn back again to (C)the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

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But now that you know God—or rather are known by God(A)—how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable forces[a]? Do you wish to be enslaved(B) by them all over again?(C)

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  1. Galatians 4:9 Or principles

Marks of the True Christian

(A)Let love be genuine. (B)Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

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Love in Action

Love must be sincere.(A) Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.(B)

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