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Christian Dating
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Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. — read the full passage →
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
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 →
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. — read the full passage →
Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: — read the full passage →
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. — read the full passage →
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: — read the full passage →
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, 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 and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, — read the full passage →
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. — read the full passage →
And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: KJV.