Job 31:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not gaze on a virgin:

² that the sons of God seeing the daughters of men that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose:

² And it happened, that one afternoon, David arose from his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and from the top of the house he saw a woman bathing, and she was very beautiful. ³ So David sent and sought out the woman, and one said, Is not this Bersabe, the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Ourias, the Chettite? ⁴ Whereupon David sent messengers, and took her, and went in unto her, and lay with her. And when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

³⁷ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; keep me alive in thy way.

²⁵ Let thine eyes look straight forward and thine eyelids wink justly.

²⁵ Let not a lust for beauty overcome thee: be not captivated by thine eyes, nor ensnared by her eyelids.

³¹ For if thou givest thine eyes to cups and goblets; thou wilt go about afterwards naked as a pestle: ³² and be, at last, like one swollen by the bite of a serpent; or as one stung by a basilisk. ³³ When thine eyes behold a strange woman; then will thy mouth speak perversely.

²⁸ But I say to you, whoever looketh on a married woman so as to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ Therefore if thy right eye cause thee to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from thee; for it is better for thee to lose one of thy members, than that thy whole body be cast into a vale of fire.

¹⁴ But every one is tempted by his own desire, when allured and ensnared. ¹⁵ In that case desire having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when grown up, produceth death.

¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the pomp of this life are not of the Father, but are of the world.