Proverbs 6:25
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.”
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“Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Proverbs 6:25 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 5:21You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- 2 Samuel 11:2One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
- 2 Samuel 11:3So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
- 2 Kings 9:30Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.
- Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
- Song of Solomon 4:9You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
- Isaiah 3:16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—
- Matthew 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- James 1:14But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
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