12And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.
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Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, …
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Commentary
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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