Proverbs 6:25
“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
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Cross-References
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
“I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?”
“I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.”
“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.”
“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”