Masturbation

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

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

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

“‘If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening. — read the full passage →

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

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 →

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren’t of any value against the indulgence of the flesh. — read the full passage →

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. — read the full passage →

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — 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.”

For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. — read the full passage →

If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

Establish my footsteps in your word. Don’t let any iniquity have dominion over me.

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly. — read the full passage →

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

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman? — read the full passage →

An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich. — read the full passage →

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.” — read the full passage →

And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light. — read the full passage →

“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him. — read the full passage →

“‘If anyone of the common people sins unwittingly, in doing any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and is guilty; — read the full passage →

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — read the full passage →

They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person. — read the full passage →

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. — read the full passage →

They were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them; for they cried to God in the battle, and he was entreated of them, because they put their trust in him.

Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her. — read the full passage →

He who is emasculated by crushing or cutting shall not enter into Yahweh’s assembly. — read the full passage →

and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.” — read the full passage →

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint. — read the full passage →

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; — read the full passage →

“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people. — read the full passage →

You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one. — read the full passage →

Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. — read the full passage →

Then he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? for they say, Yahweh doesn’t see us; Yahweh has forsaken the land. — read the full passage →

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires. — read the full passage →

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.” — read the full passage →

Yes most certainly, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ — read the full passage →

Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy. — read the full passage →

Because she took her prostitution lightly, the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with wood. — read the full passage →

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths. — read the full passage →

But as it is written, “Things which an eye didn’t see, and an ear didn’t hear, which didn’t enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him.” — read the full passage →

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. — read the full passage →

Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?” — read the full passage →

because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, — read the full passage →

The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother. — read the full passage →

Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away. — read the full passage →

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me. — read the full passage →

There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel. — read the full passage →

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching. — read the full passage →

Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me. — read the full passage →

Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to Yahweh’s law. — read the full passage →

The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.” — read the full passage →

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it. — read the full passage →

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying, — read the full passage →

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them. — read the full passage →

restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand. — read the full passage →

let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, — read the full passage →

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent, — read the full passage →

I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her. — read the full passage →

As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us. — read the full passage →

if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. — read the full passage →

What has been done this day, so Yahweh has commanded to do, to make atonement for you. — read the full passage →

Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

Onan knew that the seed wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled it on the ground, lest he should give seed to his brother. — read the full passage →

Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, — read the full passage →

Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion! — read the full passage →

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven. — read the full passage →

‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’” — read the full passage →

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.” — read the full passage →