Chastity

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — read the full passage →

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that. — read the full passage →

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: — read the full passage →

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. — read the full passage →

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads. — read the full passage →

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul; — read the full passage →

But if any man thinketh that he behaveth himself unseemly toward his virgin daughter, if she be past the flower of her age, and if need so requireth, let him do what he will; he sinneth not; let them marry.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words; — read the full passage →

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. — read the full passage →

Tarry this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform unto thee the part of a kinsman, well; let him do the kinsman’s part: but if he will not do the part of a kinsman to thee, then will I do the part of a kinsman to thee, as Jehovah liveth: lie down until the morning.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? — read the full passage →

And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall stand in his holy place? — read the full passage →

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. — read the full passage →

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

The mouth of strange women is a deep pit; He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.

Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Surely God is good to Israel, Evento such as are pure in heart.

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; enticing unstedfast souls; having a heart exercised in covetousness; children of cursing;

meekness, self-control; against such there is no law.

And he said, Blessed be thou of Jehovah, my daughter: thou hast showed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich. — read the full passage →

These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. — read the full passage →

Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths. — read the full passage →

And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. — read the full passage →

Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth; their idols are upon the beasts, and upon the cattle: the things that ye carried about are made a load, a burden to the weary beast. — read the full passage →

And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. — read the full passage →

And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. — read the full passage →

Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

But speak thou the things which befit the sound doctrine: — read the full passage →

But the end of the charge is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and faith unfeigned:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

For I would have you know how greatly I strive for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching his own will, and hath determined this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, shall do well.

I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife;

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue. — read the full passage →

And in their mouth was found no lie: they are without blemish.

Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities.

Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. — read the full passage →

Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; — read the full passage →

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.