Unmarried Sex

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

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

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

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.

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 this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

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

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 →

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

for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

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

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.

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

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,

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 →

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 →

My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear, — 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 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 →

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;

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord;

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> ;

I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers-- — read the full passage →

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 →

`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.'

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 →

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

but and if she may separate, let her remain unmarried, or to the husband let her be reconciled, and let not a husband send away a wife.

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them there.

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. — read the full passage →

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

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.'

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

for I wish all men to be even as I myself <FI>am<Fi> ; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

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

of the things of life, indeed, then, if ye may have judgment, those despised in the assembly--these cause ye to sit;

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

`And a daughter of any priest when she polluteth herself by going a-whoring--her father she is polluting; with fire she is burnt.

And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up; — read the full passage →

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that <FI>it is<Fi> good for a man that the matter be thus: --

but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood;

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

There is a way--right before a man, And its latter end <FI>are<Fi> ways of death.

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

And Israel dwelleth in Shittim, and the people begin to go a-whoring unto daughters of Moab,

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

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

And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking, — read the full passage →

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

the meats <FI>are<Fi> for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body <FI>is<Fi> not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

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,

<FI> Nun.<Fi> A lamp to my foot <FI>is<Fi> Thy word, And a light to my path.

`Thou dost not pollute thy daughter to cause her to go a-whoring, that the land go not a-whoring, and the land hath been full of wickedness.

`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city; — 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.

By faith Enoch was translated--not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to--that he had pleased God well,

Ministrants--let them be of one wife husbands; the children leading well, and their own houses,

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

so that both he who is giving in marriage doth well, and he who is not giving in marriage doth better.

And this for your own profit I say: not that I may cast a noose upon you, but for the seemliness and devotedness to the Lord, undistractedly,

And I wish you to be without anxiety; the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; — read the full passage →

And, if the unbelieving doth separate himself--let him separate himself: the brother or the sister is not under servitude in such <FI>cases<Fi> , and in peace hath God called us;

and this I say by way of concurrence--not of command,

`Every one who is sending away his wife, and marrying another, doth commit adultery; and every one who is marrying her sent away from a husband doth commit adultery.

`The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive <FI> it<Fi> --let him receive.'

`And it was said, That whoever may put away his wife, let him give to her a writing of divorce;

For <FI>I<Fi> hate sending away, said Jehovah, God of Israel, And He <FI>who<Fi> hath covered violence with his clothing, said Jehovah of Hosts, And ye have been watchful over your spirit, And ye do not deal treacherously.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. — 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.

`Thou dost not commit adultery.

And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them. — read the full passage →

And bow before it shall all who are dwelling upon the land, whose names have not been written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world;

as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, in like manner to these, having given themselves to whoredom, and gone after other flesh, have been set before--an example, of fire age-during, justice suffering.

and if any one for his own--and especially for those of the household--doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

having known this, that for a righteous man law is not set, but for lawless and insubordinate persons, ungodly and sinners, impious and profane, parricides and matricides, men-slayers, — read the full passage →

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.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, — read the full passage →

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 →

neither may we commit whoredom, as certain of them did commit whoredom, and there fell in one day twenty-three thousand;

And he who hath stood stedfast in the heart--not having necessity--and hath authority over his own will, and this he hath determined in his heart--to keep his own virgin--doth well;

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

and a woman who hath a husband unbelieving, and he is pleased to dwell with her, let her not send him away;

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

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 →

What, then, shall we say? the law <FI>is<Fi> sin? let it not be! but the sin I did not know except through law, for also the covetousness I had not known if the law had not said:

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 →

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,

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

`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.' — read the full passage →

They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

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