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

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

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

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

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

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

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: — read the full passage →

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? — read the full passage →

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

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; — read the full passage →

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

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

The song of songs, which is Solomon’s. — read the full passage →

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. — read the full passage →

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

If ye love me, keep my commandments.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, — read the full passage →

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. — read the full passage →

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

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

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

We love him, because he first loved us.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; — read the full passage →

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. — read the full passage →

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.