Everyone that keeps on looking at a woman so as to have a passion for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.—Matt. 5:28.
To maintain our integrity to Jehovah, we must adhere to his moral standards, just as Job did. He declared: “A covenant I have concluded with my eyes. So how could I show myself attentive to a virgin? . . . If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I kept lying in wait at the very entrance way of my companion, let my wife do the grinding for another man, and over her let other men kneel down.” (Job 31:1, 9, 10) Determined to maintain integrity to God, Job avoided gazing at a woman lustfully. As a married man, he did not flirt with a single woman or pursue romantic objectives with another man’s wife. In today’s text, found in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus made a powerful statement regarding sexual morality—surely a point integrity keepers need to keep in mind. w10 11/15 5:4, 5
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