Bible Verses about โseductionโ
The Bible contains 38 verses about seduction across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFlee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.โ
โbut I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.โ
โNow I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.โ
โTo the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."โ
โBy the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."โ
โFor those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.โ
โYahweh God made coats of skins for Adam and for his wife, and clothed them.โ
โDon't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.โ
โI have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.โ
โNow the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"โ
โI will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."โ
โTo Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.โ
โThe eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.โ
โWhen the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.โ
โThe serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,โ
โfor God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."โ
โThorns also and thistles will it bring forth to you; and you will eat the herb of the field.โ
โYahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."โ
โYahweh God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he put forth his hand, and also take of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever..."โ
โbut of the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"โ
โThe man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate."โ
โSo he drove out the man; and he placed Cherubs at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.โ
โThe woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,โ
โGod said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"โ
โThe man said, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself."โ
โTherefore Yahweh God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.โ
โThe man called his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all living.โ
โThey heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.โ
โYahweh God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"โ
โYahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.โ
โHow can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.โ
โFor your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.โ
โWith my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.โ
โthat they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.โ
โHe isn't greater in this house than I, neither has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?"โ
โIt happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."โ
โBut he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.โ
โShe caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.โ
