Psalm 101:3
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3 I will not set before my eyes
anything that is base.
I hate the work of those who fall away;
it shall not cling to me.(A)
Psalm 119:37
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- 119.37 Q ms: MT give me life
Job 31:1
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31 “I have made a covenant with my eyes;
how, then, could I look upon a virgin?(A)
Matthew 5:28
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28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(A)
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2 Samuel 11:2-3
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2 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) 3 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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James 1:13-15
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13 No one, when tempted, should say, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted by evil and he himself tempts no one. 14 But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; 15 then, when desire has conceived, it engenders sin, and sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.(A)
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Proverbs 6:25
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25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes,(A)
Exodus 20:17
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17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”(A)
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Psalm 40:4
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4 Happy are those who make
the Lord their trust,
who do not turn to the proud,
to those who go astray after false gods.(A)
Romans 12:9
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Marks of the True Christian
9 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil; hold fast to what is good;
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Ecclesiastes 6:9
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9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire; this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.(A)
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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 do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart, 21 and do not turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or save, for they are useless.(A)
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Joshua 23:6
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6 Therefore be very steadfast to observe and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right nor to the left,(A)
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Deuteronomy 15:9
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9 Be careful that you do not entertain a mean thought, thinking, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and therefore view your needy neighbor with hostility and give nothing; your neighbor[a] might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.(A)
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- 15.9 Heb he
2 Peter 2:21
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21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment that was handed on to them.(A)
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Hebrews 10:39
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39 But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost but among those who have faith and so preserve our souls.(A)
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Galatians 4:9
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9 Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles?[a] How can you want to be enslaved to them again?(A)
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- 4.9 Or spirits
Jeremiah 22:17
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17 But your eyes and heart
are only on your dishonest gain,
for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.(A)
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.”(A)
Psalm 119:113
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113 I hate the double-minded,
but I love your law.(A)
Psalm 78:41
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41 They tested God again and again
and provoked the Holy One of Israel.(A)
Psalm 14:3
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3 They have all gone astray; they are all alike perverse;
there is no one who does good,
no, not one.(A)
Exodus 32:8
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8 they have been quick to turn aside from the way that I commanded them; they have cast for themselves an image of a 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!’ ”(A)
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1 John 2:19
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19 They went out from us, but they did not belong to us, for if they had belonged to us they would have remained[a] with us. But by going out they made it plain that none of them belongs to us.(A)
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- 2.19 Or abided
Zephaniah 1:5-6
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5 those who bow down on the roofs
to the host of the heavens,
those who bow down and swear to the Lord
but also swear by Milcom,[a](A)
6 those who have turned back from following the Lord,
who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.(B)
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- 1.5 Gk mss Syr Vg: Heb their king
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