🇬🇧 Mathew 5:27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Jesus is emphasizing again that sin begins with a wrong choice inside before there is ever an action outside.   Jesus tells us that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  Now, at first it looks like Jesus is setting up a new, more stringent moral standard regarding lust, but remember that Jesus did not come to abolish the law, or change it, but to fulfill it.  When Job seeks to assert his integrity before God, In Job  31, he begins in verse 1 with saying “I have made a covenant with my eyes;  How then could I look at a virgin?  Now Job likely lived sometime between Noah and Abraham, and yet, long before the law was given by Moses, he knew that it was sin to look at a young woman with lust. Job made a covenant with his eyes not to look upon a young, unmarried girl with lust.  This sin tends to start with looking.  Jesus emphasizes that it is the eye gateway to the heart or soul where this particular sin tends to enter.  In Matthew 6:22, Jesus asserts that the eye is the lamp of the body. “If your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.” Things you see easily reach your heart and soul, so, as the children’s song says: “be careful little eyes what you see”.  As Martin Luther said “You can’t stop a bird from flying overhead, but you can keep it from building a nest in your hair.”  In other words, you cannot always help what is presented before your eyes, but you can help whether or not you dwell on and fantasize about what you’ve seen.  Let’s just say that not much good happens for Christians late at night on the internet, as a general rule. Avoid temptation, and especially temptation that you have caved in to in the past.  Psalm 101:3 says I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless. I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me.   http://mvcog.org/wp/2021/05/23/lust-of-the-eye/