“but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 5 contains 48 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.