Matthew 5:28
but I say to you that everyone who is looking on a woman to desire her, already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
27You heard that it was said to the ancients: You will not commit adultery;
Cross References
Genesis 39:7And it comes to pass after these things, that his lord’s wife lifts up her eyes to Joseph and says, “Lie with me”;
2 Samuel 11:2And it comes to pass, at evening-time, that David rises from off his bed, and walks up and down on the roof of the king’s house, and sees a woman bathing from the roof, and the woman [is] of very good appearance,
Job 31:9If my heart has been enticed by a woman, || And I laid wait by the opening of my neighbor,
Proverbs 6:25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, || And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
Matthew 5:39but I say to you not to resist the evil, but whoever will slap you on your right cheek, turn to him also the other;
Romans 7:7What, then, will we say? The Law [is] sin? Let it not be! But I did not know sin except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the Law had not said:
Matthew Henry on Matthew 5:28-33
The Sermon on the Mount. 27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. 30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it… Read the whole commentary →