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Matthew 5:28

WEB

28but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

KJV

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.

BSB

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

FBV

28[+] But I tell you that everyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed adultery with her in his mind.

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Extra References

1 John 2:16

16For all that is in the worldthe lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.


James 1:14-15

14But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. 15Then the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin. The sin, when it is full grown, produces death.


Proverbs 6:25

25Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.


Exodus 20:17

17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”


2 Samuel 11:2

2At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.


Job 31:1

1I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?


2 Peter 2:14

14having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children!


Romans 7:7-8

7What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”8But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.


Genesis 34:2

2Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.


Job 31:9

9“If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,