Sex And Not Married

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

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

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, — read the full passage →

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.

therefore doth a man leave his father and his mother, and hath cleaved unto his wife, and they have become one flesh.

`And if this thing hath been truth--tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel-- — read the full passage →

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.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

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. — read the full passage →

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

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

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. — read the full passage →

`When a man findeth a damsel, a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath caught her, and lain with her, and they have been found, — read the full passage →

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

And the Spirit expressly speaketh, that in latter times shall certain fall away from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and teachings of demons, — read the full passage →

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, — read the full passage →

And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper--as his counterpart.'

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I <FI>am<Fi> ; — read the full passage →

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.

And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

`And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

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

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.

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord, — read the full passage →

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.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband; — read the full passage →

Dare any one of you, having a matter with the other, go to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth-- — read the full passage →

`for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh;' — read the full passage →

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

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

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

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman,

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,

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, — read the full passage →

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

And he answering said to them, `Did ye not read, that He who made <FI>them<Fi> , from the beginning a male and a female made them, — read the full passage →

`And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife--who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour--the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

`And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

And they are both of them naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.

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,

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;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband; — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good <FI>it is<Fi> for a man not to touch a woman, — read the full passage →

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 →

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

for the married woman to the living husband hath been bound by law, and if the husband may die, she hath been free from the law of the husband;

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature; — read the full passage →

wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God, — read the full passage →

but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them; — read the full passage →

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, How ye stir up, And how ye wake the love till she please!

How fair and how pleasant hast thou been, O love, in delights. — read the full passage →

How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!

Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth, For better <FI>are<Fi> thy loves than wine.

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.

Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

<FI> Whoso<Fi> hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, and unto Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →