One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof(A) of the palace. From the roof he saw(B) a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba,(C) the daughter of Eliam(D) and the wife of Uriah(E) the Hittite.” Then David sent messengers to get her.(F) She came to him, and he slept(G) with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.)(H) Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”

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And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.

And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

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31 “I made a covenant with my eyes(A)
    not to look lustfully at a young woman.(B)

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31 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

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25 Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

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

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19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.(A)

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19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

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14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own(A) evil desire and enticed.

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14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

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15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin;(A) and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.(B)

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15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

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