10And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
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But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids. …
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 7-12)Here is, I. A most shameful instance of impudence and immodesty in Joseph’s mistress, the shame and scandal of her sex, perfectly lost to all virtue and honour, and not to be mentioned, nor thought of, without the utmost indignation. It was well that she was an Egyptian; for we must have shared in the confusion if such folly had been found in Israel. Observe, I. Her sin began in the eye: She cast…
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