Kissing Before Marriage

but I--I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete;

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

For we--wilfully sinning after the receiving the full knowledge of the truth--no more for sins doth there remain a sacrifice,

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

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings; — read the full passage →

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

so that they are no more two, but one flesh; what therefore God did join together, let no man put asunder.'

aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

all unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not unto death.

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

and thou didst bear, and hast endurance, and because of my name hast toiled, and hast not been weary. — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin. — read the full passage →

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

salute one another in an holy kiss;

Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?

do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?

Elders who <FI>are<Fi> among you, I exhort, who <FI>am<Fi> a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and of the glory about to be revealed a partaker, — read the full passage →

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →