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Premarital Sex
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Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — read the full passage →
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. — read the full passage →
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. — read the full passage →
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.
Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; — read the full passage →
lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,
Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath uncovered his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen. — read the full passage →
But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel; — read the full passage →
And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. — read the full passage →
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.
And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a shameful thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.
And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; — read the full passage →
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. — read the full passage →
But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well. — read the full passage →
Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! — read the full passage →
And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →
Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
Every one that doeth sin doeth also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, — read the full passage →
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings: — read the full passage →
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister; for he hath made naked his near kin: they shall bear their iniquity. — read the full passage →
Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children; — read the full passage →
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.
And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and moreover, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt. — read the full passage →
The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. — read the full passage →
None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Jehovah. — read the full passage →
But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter-in-law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. — read the full passage →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: — read the full passage →
But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
that they said to you, In the last time there shall be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →
And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy whoredom, to provoke me to anger.
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah. — read the full passage →
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.
And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.
Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.
These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.
then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →
but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all: — read the full passage →
And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love. — read the full passage →
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, — read the full passage →
But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was. — read the full passage →
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John; — read the full passage →
Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid. — read the full passage →
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