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Ezekiel 16:60

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60 Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish to thee an everlasting covenant.

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2 Chronicles 28:5

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5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

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Doctrine of Life #78

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78. That to commit adultery also means to engage in obscene acts, to speak lasciviously, and to entertain filthy thoughts is clear from the Lord’s words in Matthew:

You have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not commit adultery.” But I say to you that whoever looks at (another’s) woman so as to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:27-28)

  
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Many thanks to the General Church of the New Jerusalem, and to Rev. N.B. Rogers, translator, for the permission to use this translation.