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No Sex Before Marriage
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honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.
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 →
`And when a man doth entice a virgin who <FI>is<Fi> not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife;
for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.
therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.
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 →
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.
and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;
As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →
Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →
let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.
and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
`If ye love me, my commands keep,
`And when a man doth entice a virgin who <FI>is<Fi> not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife; — read the full passage →
`Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery; — read the full passage →
If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated, — read the full passage →
lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.
`Thou dost not commit adultery.
ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,
but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;
Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --
And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife--who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour--the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.
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,
but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.
Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--
if we may confess our sins, stedfast He is and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from every unrighteousness;
And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host; — read the full passage →
And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →
For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, — read the full passage →
and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;
these are they who with women were not defiled, for they are virgin; these are they who are following the Lamb whithersoever he may go; these were bought from among men--a first-fruit to God and to the Lamb--
Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
`When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her, — read the full passage →
and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;
for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;
`When brethren dwell together, and one of them hath died, and hath no son, the wife of the dead is not without to a strange man; her husband's brother doth go in unto her, and hath taken her to him for a wife, and doth perform the duty of her husband's brother; — read the full passage →
for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;
In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →
And there came unto me one of the seven messengers, who have the seven vials that are full of the seven last plagues, and he spake with me, saying, `Come, I will shew thee the bride of the Lamb--the wife,'
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 →
for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →
because nothing shall be impossible with God.'
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.
<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.
For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →
Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;
And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,
Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking <FI>is there<Fi> to righteousness and lawlessness?
And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Timotheus the brother, — read the full passage →
The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
`And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.
And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.
Simeon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who did obtain a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Saviour Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →
for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;
for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →
The masters! that which is righteous and equal to the servants give ye, having known that ye also have a Master in the heavens. — read the full passage →
Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy. — read the full passage →
`Thou dost not see the ox of thy brother or his sheep driven away, and hast hidden thyself from them, thou dost certainly turn them back to thy brother; — read the full passage →
`And a man who taketh the woman and her mother--it <FI>is<Fi> wickedness; with fire they burn him and them, and there is no wickedness in your midst.
Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept--called, — read the full passage →
See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him; — read the full passage →
And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I <FI>am<Fi> ; — read the full passage →
I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice--living, sanctified, acceptable to God--your intelligent service;
And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren--`If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;' — read the full passage →
But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, <FI>are<Fi> in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole <FI>is<Fi> before them. — read the full passage →
And Elisha the prophet hath called to one of the sons of the prophets, and saith to him, `Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-Gilead, — read the full passage →
And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'
`To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands--the golden: — read the full passage →
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the choice sojourners of the dispersion of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →
Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth; — read the full passage →
The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,
Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — 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 →
neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand; — read the full passage →
the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;
There is, then, now no condemnation to those in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit; — read the full passage →
God hath in full completed this to us their children, having raised up Jesus, as also in the second Psalm it hath been written, My Son thou art--I to-day have begotten thee. — read the full passage →
the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;
`Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God. — read the full passage →
The burden of a word of Jehovah unto Israel by the hand of Malachi: — read the full passage →
And a widow and divorced woman they do not take to them for wives: but--virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, and the widow who is widow of a priest, do they take.
Then do I cause their waters to sink, And their rivers as oil I cause to go, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah. — read the full passage →
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying: — read the full passage →
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, — read the full passage →
The word that hath been unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, saying: — read the full passage →
Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again there is in this place--that is waste, Without man and beast, And in all its cities--a habitation of shepherds, Causing the flock to lie down. — read the full passage →
As a lily among the thorns, — read the full passage →
Before destruction the heart of man is high, And before honour <FI>is<Fi> humility. — read the full passage →
From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man--from his fruits. — read the full passage →
The wicked hath desired the net of evil doers, And the root of the righteous giveth. — read the full passage →
Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →
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