Psalm 101:3
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3 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.
Psalm 119:37
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Job 31:1
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Job's Final Appeal
31 “I have made a covenant with my (A)eyes;
how then could I gaze at a virgin?
James 1:13-15
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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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Matthew 5:28
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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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2 Samuel 11:2-3
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2 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. 3 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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Proverbs 6:25
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Exodus 20:17
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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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Psalm 40:4
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4 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!
1 Samuel 12:20-21
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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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2 Peter 2:21
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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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Galatians 4:9
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9 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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Romans 12:9
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Marks of the True Christian
9 (A)Let love be genuine. (B)Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.
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Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(A)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
Ecclesiastes 6:9
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9 Better (A)is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is (B)vanity and a striving after wind.
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Joshua 23:6
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6 Therefore, (A)be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, (B)turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,
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Deuteronomy 15:9
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9 Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your (A)eye look grudgingly[a] on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he (B)cry to the Lord against you, and (C)you be guilty of sin.
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- Deuteronomy 15:9 Or be evil; also verse 10
Hebrews 10:39
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39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
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Psalm 119:113
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Psalm 78:41
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Psalm 14:3
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3 They have all turned aside; together they have become (A)corrupt;
there is none who does good,
not even one.
Micah 2:2
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2 They covet fields and (A)seize them,
and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
a man and his inheritance.
Isaiah 33:15
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15 (A)He who walks righteously and speaks uprightly,
who despises the gain of oppressions,
who shakes his hands, lest they hold a bribe,
who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed
(B)and shuts his eyes from looking on evil,
Isaiah 30:11
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11 leave the way, turn aside from the path,
let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”
Exodus 32:8
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8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that (A)I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”
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