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Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, or by the hinds of the field, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires.
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. — read the full passage →
Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?
and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.
You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; — read the full passage →
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.
But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Commit your deeds to Yahweh, and your plans shall succeed.
It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.
God is in her midst. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.
speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter more than me isn’t worthy of me.
A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →
Also delight yourself in Yahweh, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Where there is no counsel, plans fail; but in a multitude of counselors they are established.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? — read the full passage →
If a man prevails against one who is alone, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
Now the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →
Blessed is he whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is covered. — read the full passage →
Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. — read the full passage →
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. — read the full passage →
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion, — read the full passage →
I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends
You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
Don’t befriend a hot-tempered man, and don’t associate with one who harbors anger:
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor.
idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.” — read the full passage →
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies. — read the full passage →
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.
A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart; so does earnest counsel from a man’s friend.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; — read the full passage →
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. — read the full passage →
You are all beautiful, my love. There is no spot in you.
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge; — read the full passage →
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you,
And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it; — read the full passage →
Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord. — read the full passage →
This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,
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