Self Gratification

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — 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.

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

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.

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

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

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.

But each one 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 on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. — read the full passage →

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 →

traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

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

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

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

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.

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with 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.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.” — read the full passage →

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

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

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

We know that whoever is born of God doesn’t sin, but he who was born of God keeps himself, and the evil one doesn’t touch him.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

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

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

You will show me the path of life. In your presence is fullness of joy. In your right hand there are pleasures forever more.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

After these things, I saw another angel coming down out of the sky, having great authority. The earth was illuminated with his glory. — read the full passage →

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you 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 by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →

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

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits 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 don’t wage 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 anything.

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

but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Jacob boiled stew. Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. — read the full passage →

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

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

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

For we are not bold to number or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But they themselves, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are without understanding.

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 →

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.

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.

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

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

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

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

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

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

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

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

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, — read the full passage →

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

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

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

In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. — read the full passage →

You husbands, in the same way, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

“As you would like people to do to you, do exactly so to them.

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits, and its breadth 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, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

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

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 →

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

The second is like this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’There is no other commandment greater than these.”