Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

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;

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, {even} from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words;

For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

The mouth of strange women {is} a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words.

So she caught him, and kissed him, {and} with an impudent face said unto him, {with...: Heb. she strengthened her face and said}

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

For a whore {is} a deep ditch; and a strange woman {is} a narrow pit.

For the lips of a strange woman drop {as} an honeycomb, and her mouth {is} smoother than oil: {mouth: Heb. palate}

Whoso {is} simple, let him turn in hither: and {as for} him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. {to speak...: Gr. for their railing}

Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he {was} a Jew.

And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.