Matthew 5:28 Cross References - NSB

²⁸ »However, I tell you that whoever looks at a woman with lustful thoughts commits adultery with her in his heart.

² Shechem, son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her. He grabbed her and raped (sexually defiled) her.

⁷ Soon his master’s wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed with her. ⁸ He refused, and said to her: »My master does not have to concern himself with anything in the house, because I am here. He has put me in charge of everything he has. ⁹ »No one in this house is greater than I. He has kept nothing back from me except you. You are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?« ¹⁰ She kept asking Joseph day after day. He refused to go to bed with her or be with her. ¹¹ One day he went into the house to do his work. None of the household servants were there. ¹² She grabbed him by his coat and said: »Come to bed with me!« But he ran outside and left his coat in her hand. ¹³ When she realized that he had gone but had left his coat behind, ¹⁴ she called her household servants and said to them: »Look! My husband brought this Hebrew here to fool around with us. He came in and tried to go to bed with me. I screamed as loud as I could. ¹⁵ »When he heard me scream, he ran out of the house, leaving his coat with me.« ¹⁶ Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s coat until her husband came home. ¹⁷ She said: »That Hebrew slave of yours tried to rape me! ¹⁸ »When I screamed for help, he left his coat and ran out of the house.« ¹⁹ Potiphar became very angry ²⁰ and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king’s prisoners were kept. While Joseph was in prison, ²¹ Jehovah helped him and was good to him. He even made the jailer like Joseph so much that ²² he put him in charge of the other prisoners and of everything that was done in the jail. ²³ The jailer did not worry about anything, because Jehovah was with Joseph and made him successful in all that he did.

¹⁷ »Do not covet (desire) another man’s house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns.

² Late one afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. He walked around on the roof. He saw a woman taking a bath. She was very beautiful.

¹ »I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.

⁹ »If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

⁹⁶ I have seen a limit to all perfection. Your commandment is exceedingly broad.

²⁵ Do not lust after her beauty in your heart. Do not let her attract you with her eyelids.

²² »Now I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother [without cause] shall be guilty before the court. Whoever speaks to his brother with words of contempt shall receive condemnation before the Sanhedrin [Supreme Court]. Curse your brother and you will be guilty enough to be destroyed by fire, with the burning trash, at the Valley of Hinnom, outside of Jerusalem (Greek: Gehenna).

³⁹ »But I tell you, do not resist a wicked person. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to that person.

²⁸ When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were astonished at what he taught. ²⁹ He taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid! I had not known sin except through the law. For I had not known coveting except the law had said: You should not covet. ⁸ But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead.

¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual. But I am fleshly and sold under sin.

¹⁴ Each man is tempted when he is drawn away by his evil desire (lust). He is enticed (allured). ¹⁵ Then evil desires, when conceived, give birth to sin: and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

¹⁴ They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.

¹⁶ The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world.