Genesis 39:7
And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph, and said, Lie with me!
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Genesis 6:2that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose.
Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; and how should I fix my regard upon a maid?
Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 6:26for by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.
Proverbs 7:15therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
Ezekiel 16:25thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 39:2-7
The History of Joseph. ( b. c. 1721.) 1 And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. 2 And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian. 3 And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand. 4 And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he… Read the whole commentary →