Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren: — read the full passage →
Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.
Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
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.
because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved:
and said, For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?
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.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;
Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.
not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
I beseech you therefore, brethren, 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 →
Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
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:
Now the God of patience and of comfort grant you to be of the same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →
But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Then went out unto him Jerusalem, and all Judæa, and all the region round about the Jordan;
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore would be a friend of the world maketh himself an enemy of God.
and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works; — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — 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;
If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions, — read the full passage →
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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 →
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →
that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; — read the full passage →
whatsoever ye do, work heartily, as unto the Lord, and not unto men;
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. — read the full passage →
Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. — read the full passage →
subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, — read the full passage →
idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? — read the full passage →
Let all that ye do be done in love.
All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.
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.
A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.
Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;
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.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born anew, he cannot see the kingdom of God. — read the full passage →
And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
For no word from God shall be void of power.
Topical index adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0). Verse text: ASV.