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Unmarried Sex
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Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — 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, — read the full passage →
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
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,
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →
My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding: — read the full passage →
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.
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. — read the full passage →
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. — read the full passage →
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.
(but if she departs, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband), and that the husband not leave his wife.
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
Great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. — read the full passage →
Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
If then, you have to judge things pertaining to this life, do you set them to judge who are of no account in the assembly?
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.
But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; — read the full passage →
“‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — read the full passage →
I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab;
“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names. — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
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,
Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
“‘Don’t profane your daughter, to make her a prostitute; lest the land fall to prostitution, and the land become full of wickedness.
Blessed are those who do his commandments,that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. — 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.
By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.
This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.
But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord; — read the full passage →
Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.
But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
“The Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,
For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”
“It was also said, ‘Whoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorce,’
For I hate divorce”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don’t deal treacherously.
Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. — read the full passage →
“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
“You shall not commit adultery.
God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. — read the full passage →
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.
as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for man slayers, — read the full passage →
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.
Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.
The woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is content to live with her, let her not leave her husband.
Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”
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, — read the full passage →
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →
For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the Good News of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you always in my prayers,
But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.” — read the full passage →
They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a bill of divorce, and divorce her?”
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →
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