But now I tell you: if you are angry with your brother you will be brought to trial, if you call your brother 'You good-for-nothing!' you will be brought before the Council, and if you call your brother a worthless fool you will be in danger of going to the fire of hell.

But now I tell you: do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, let him slap your left cheek too.

When Jesus finished saying these things, the crowd was amazed at the way he taught.

He wasn't like the teachers of the Law; instead, he taught with authority.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, who was chief of that region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

and after a while his master's wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed with her.

I have as much authority in this house as he has, and he has not kept back anything from me except you. How then could I do such an immoral thing and sin against God?"

But one day when Joseph went into the house to do his work, none of the house servants was there.

When she saw that he had left his robe and had run out of the house,

When he heard me scream, he ran outside, leaving his robe beside me."

Then she told him the same story: "That Hebrew slave that you brought here came into my room and insulted me.

Joseph's master was furious

But the LORD was with Joseph and blessed him, so that the jailer was pleased with him.

The jailer did not have to look after anything for which Joseph was responsible, because the LORD was with Joseph and made him succeed in everything he did.

"Do not desire another man's house; do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns."

One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in her house. She was very beautiful.

I have made a solemn promise never to look with lust at a woman.

If I have been attracted to my neighbor's wife, and waited, hidden, outside her door,

Don't be tempted by their beauty; don't be trapped by their flirting eyes.

But we are tempted when we are drawn away and trapped by our own evil desires.

Then our evil desires conceive and give birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

They want to look for nothing but the chance to commit adultery; their appetite for sin is never satisfied. They lead weak people into a trap. Their hearts are trained to be greedy. They are under God's curse!

Everything that belongs to the world---what the sinful self desires, what people see and want, and everything in this world that people are so proud of---none of this comes from the Father; it all comes from the world.

I have learned that everything has limits; but your commandment is perfect.

Shall we say, then, that the Law itself is sinful? Of course not! But it was the Law that made me know what sin is. If the Law had not said, "Do not desire what belongs to someone else," I would not have known such a desire.

But by means of that commandment sin found its chance to stir up all kinds of selfish desires in me. Apart from law, sin is a dead thing.

We know that the Law is spiritual; but I am a mortal, sold as a slave to sin.