Self Gratification

And I say: In the Spirit walk ye, and the desire of the flesh ye may not complete; — read the full passage →

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

honourable <FI>is<Fi> the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

Beloved, I call upon <FI>you<Fi> , as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

Put to death, then, your members that <FI>are<Fi> upon the earth--whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry--

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;

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation; — read the full passage →

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap, — read the full passage →

My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one, — read the full passage →

traitors, heady, lofty, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God,

and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of 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.

for all of us it behoveth to be manifested before the tribunal of the Christ, that each one may receive the things <FI>done<Fi> through the body, in reference to the things that he did, whether good or evil;

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

For ye--to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

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.

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

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;

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

but I chastise my body, and bring <FI>it<Fi> into servitude, lest by any means, having preached to others--I myself may become disapproved.

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

And the brethren immediately, through the night, sent forth both Paul and Silas to Berea, who having come, went to the synagogue of the Jews; — read the full passage →

reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,

to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.

and the peace of God, that is surpassing all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

for the wages of the sin <FI>is<Fi> death, and the gift of God <FI>is<Fi> life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.

And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times, — read the full passage →

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,

and the truth shall make you free.'

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

Ye--of God ye are, little children, and ye have overcome them; because greater is He who <FI>is<Fi> in you, than he who is in the world.

because nothing shall be impossible with God.'

`As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;

And after these things I saw another messenger coming down out of the heaven, having great authority, and the earth was lightened from his glory, — read the full passage →

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

Let no one say, being tempted--`From God I am tempted,' for God is not tempted of evil, and Himself doth tempt no one, — read the full passage →

For, let this mind be in you that <FI>is<Fi> also in Christ Jesus, — read the full passage →

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects,

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.

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

`But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

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

for walking in the flesh, not according to the flesh do we war, — read the full passage →

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I--I will not be under authority by any;

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

Then said Jesus to his disciples, `If any one doth will to come after me, let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me,

and those who are Christ's, the flesh did crucify with the affections, and the desires;

and ye <FI>are<Fi> a choice race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired, that the excellences ye may shew forth of Him who out of darkness did call you to His wondrous light;

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

For we do not make bold to rank or to compare ourselves with certain of those commending themselves, but they, among themselves measuring themselves, and comparing themselves with themselves, are not wise,

If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; — read the full passage →

`Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar--also his father.

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.

teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

but ye also, every one in particular--let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife--that she may reverence the husband.

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

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

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this--judgment,

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

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, — read the full passage →

lest any one be a fornicator, or a profane person, as Esau, who in exchange for one morsel of food did sell his birthright,

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

but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the flesh take no forethought--for desires.

The husbands, in like manner, dwelling with <FI>them<Fi> , according to knowledge, as to a weaker vessel--to the wife--imparting honour, as also being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered.

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

and as ye wish that men may do to you, do ye also to them in like manner;

James, of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ a servant, to the Twelve Tribes who are in the dispersion: Hail! — read the full passage →

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

and the second <FI>is<Fi> like <FI>it<Fi> , this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; --greater than these there is no other command.'