Self Gratification

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — 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.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. — read the full passage →

My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: — read the full passage →

traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

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

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.

For we must all be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

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

For God gave us not a spirit of fearfulness; but of power and love and discipline.

but I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage: lest by any means, after that I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Beroea: who when they were come thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.

To him therefore that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. — read the full passage →

But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. — 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,

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

We know that whosoever is begotten of God sinneth not; but he that was begotten of God keepeth himself, and the evil one toucheth him not.

Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

For no word from God shall be void of power.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

How much soever she glorified herself, and waxed wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall in no wise see mourning.

Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fulness of joy; In thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory. — read the full passage →

whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: — read the full passage →

Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: — read the full passage →

And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

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.

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

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

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh — read the full passage →

All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

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

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

And Jacob boiled pottage: and Esau came in from the field, and he was faint: — read the full passage →

And the boys grew: and Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet man, dwelling in tents.

And they that are of Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with the passions and the lusts thereof.

How is Sheshach taken! and the praise of the whole earth seized! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!

But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with certain of them that commend themselves: but they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life.

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

And inasmuch as it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment;

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, calledto bean apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, — 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 →

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

He that separateth himself seeketh his own desire, And rageth against all sound wisdom.

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

I exhort therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made for all men; — read the full passage →

The second is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.