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

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

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

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

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

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.

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,

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

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God, — read the full passage →

The Jews therefore marveled, saying, “How does this man know letters, having never been educated?”

No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.

My little children, let’s not love in word only, neither with the tongue only, but in deed and truth.

“For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh.”

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”

and said, “Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

and said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

If you love me, keep my commandments.

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’ — read the full passage →

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

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

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

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.

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

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 →

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths. — read the full passage →

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us);

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. — read the full passage →

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

and all ate the same spiritual food;

concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

we accept it in all ways and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.

When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

and said to him, ‘Get out of your land, and from your relatives, and come into a land which I will show you.’

If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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

Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. — read the full passage →

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

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.

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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 →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations,

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. — read the full passage →

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

(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),

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 →

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;