Cross References → Genesis 39:7

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.

Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all desirable young men, horsemen mounted on steeds. ... She too lusted after the Assyrians—governors and commanders, warriors dressed in splendor, horsemen riding on steeds, all desirable young men. And I saw that she too had defiled herself; both of them had taken the same path. But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion, wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth. At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;

She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by. ... You adulterous wife! You receive strangers instead of your own husband! ... So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite!