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To a fornicator all bread tastes sweet; he will never cease until he dies.
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A man who breaks his marriage vows says to himself, "Who sees me? Darkness surrounds me, and the walls hide me, and no one sees me. Why should I fear? The Most High will not take notice of my sins."
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His fear is confined to the eyes of men, and he does not realize that the eyes of the Lord are ten thousand times brighter than the sun; they look upon all the ways of men, and perceive even the hidden places
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Before the universe was created, it was known to him; so it was also after it was finished.
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This man will be punished in the streets of the city, and where he least suspects it, he will be seized
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So it is with a woman who leaves her husband and provides an heir by a stranger.
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For first of all, she has disobeyed the law of the Most High; second, she has committed an offense against her husband; and third, she has committed adultery through harlotry and brought forth children by another man.
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She herself will be brought before the assembly, and punishment will fall on her children.
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Her children will not take root, and her branches will not bear fruit.
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She will leave her memory for a curse, and her disgrace will not be blotted out.
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Those who survive her will recognize that nothing is better than the fear of the Lord, and nothing sweeter than to heed the commandments of the Lord.