Long Courtship

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Here is the patience of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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?’

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.

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. — read the full passage →

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the Good News—not in wisdom of words, so that the cross of Christ wouldn’t be made void.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?

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.

He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your handmaid. Therefore spread your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.” — read the full passage →

He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

But say the things which fit sound doctrine, — read the full passage →

Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided in your midst. — read the full passage →

When David lived in his house, David said to Nathan the prophet, “Behold, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of the covenant of Yahweh is under curtains.” — read the full passage →

God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

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,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. — read the full passage →

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul: — read the full passage →

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power! — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

“that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth.”

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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 →

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.

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.

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. — read the full passage →

It isn’t good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one’s feet and missing the way.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Nathan said to David, “Do all that is in your heart; for God is with you.”

When men began to multiply on the surface of the ground, and daughters were born to them, — read the full passage →

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Now these are the names of the tribes: From the north end, beside the way of Hethlon to the entrance of Hamath, Hazar Enan at the border of Damascus, northward beside Hamath, (and they shall have their sides east and west), Dan, one portion. — read the full passage →

For Yahweh is our judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is our king. He will save us.

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. — read the full passage →

Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things. — read the full passage →

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bear children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →

Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

let your wives keep silent in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to speak; but let them be in subjection, as the law also says.

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it.

Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the assembly of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

“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.

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.

By the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, Asher, one portion.

Yahweh, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

It is not for kings, Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to say, ‘Where is strong drink?’

Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

Praise Yah! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in his heavens for his acts of power!

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.

Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I don’t make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time!”

God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

The earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep and God’s Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.