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FEBRUARY 4
17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s 43 You have delivered me from the
house; you shall not covet your neigh- strivings of the people;
bor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor You have made me the head
his female servant, nor his ox, nor his of the nations;
donkey, nor anything that is your A people I have not known shall
neighbor’s.” serve me.
44 As soon as they hear of me they obey
18 Now all the people witnessed the thunder- me;
ings, the lightning flashes, the sound of the The foreigners submit to me.
trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and 45 The foreigners fade away,
when the people saw it, they trembled and And come frightened from their
stood afar off. Then they said to Moses, “You hideouts.
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speak with us, and we will hear; but let not
God speak with us, lest we die.” Proverbs 6:20–25
20 And Moses said to the people, “Do not fear; 20 My son, keep your father’s command,
for God has come to test you, and that His fear And do not forsake the law
may be before you, so that you may not sin.” of your mother.
So the people stood afar off, but Moses drew Bind them continually upon your
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near the thick darkness where God was. heart;
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Then the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you Tie them around your neck.
shall say to the children of Israel: ‘You have 22 When you roam, they will lead you;
seen that I have talked with you from heaven. When you sleep, they will keep you;
23 You shall not make anything to be with Me— And when you awake, they will speak
gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make with you.
for yourselves. An altar of earth you shall 23 For the commandment is a lamp,
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make for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your And the law a light;
burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your Reproofs of instruction are the way
sheep and your oxen. In every place where I re- of life,
cord My name I will come to you, and I will 24 To keep you from the evil woman,
bless you. And if you make Me an altar of From the flattering tongue
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stone, you shall not build it of hewn stone; for if of a seductress.
you use your tool on it, you have profaned it. 25 Do not lust after her beauty
Nor shall you go up by steps to My altar, that in your heart,
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your nakedness may not be exposed on it.’ Nor let her allure you with her eyelids.
Psalm 18:37–45
I have pursued my enemies and
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overtaken them; 6:25 lust.Sexual sin is rooted in lust (imagina-
Neither did I turn back again till they tion of the sinful act), as implied in Exodus
were destroyed. 20:17 and addressed by Christ in Matthew
I have wounded them, 5:28.This initial attraction must be consistently
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So that they could not rise; rejected (James 1:14,15).
They have fallen under my feet.
For You have armed me with strength
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for the battle; Matthew 22:23–46
You have subdued under me those
who rose up against me. 23 The same day the Sadducees, who say there
You have also given me the necks of
40 is no resurrection, came to Him and asked Him,
my enemies, 24 saying: “Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies,
So that I destroyed those who hated having no children, his brother shall marry his
me. wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
41 They cried out, but there was none to 25 Now there were with us seven brothers. The
save; first died after he had married, and having no
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Even to the LORD, but He did not offspring, left his wife to his brother. Like-
answer them. wise the second also, and the third, even to
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Then I beat them as fine as the dust
42 the seventh. Last of all the woman died also.
before the wind; 28 Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of
I cast them out like dirt in the streets. the seven will she be? For they all had her.”
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