1 Corinthians 7:34

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

What will I give to Yahweh for all his benefits toward me?

For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were through the law worked in our members to bring out fruit to death.

even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

and she had been a widow for about eighty-four years), who didn’t depart from the temple, worshiping with fastings and petitions night and day.

Only, as the Lord has distributed to each man, as God has called each, so let him walk. So I command in all the assemblies.

I give a judgment in this: for this is expedient for you who were the first to start a year ago, not only to do, but also to be willing.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.

Honor widows who are widows indeed.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.

Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for these things, be diligent to be found in peace, without defect and blameless in his sight.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

For God has put in their hearts to do what he has in mind, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.

Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.

You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

For if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

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;

Now thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and reveals through us the sweet aroma of his knowledge in every place.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we don’t faint.

For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Isn’t it even you, before our Lord Jesus at his coming?

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.

For this is how in the past, the holy women who hoped in God also adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,

For I have told him that I will judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves, and he didn’t restrain them.

Israel will be saved by Yahweh with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

“Don’t be afraid, for you will not be ashamed. Don’t be confounded, for you will not be disappointed. For you will forget the shame of your youth. You will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

He also spoke a parable to them that they must always pray, and not give up,

But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Thus consider yourselves also to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let’s cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

If any man or woman who believes has widows, let them relieve them, and don’t let the assembly be burdened, that it might relieve those who are widows indeed.

nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.

how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without defect to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

But if one of you suffers for being a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God in this matter.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

My sister, my bride, is a locked up garden; a locked up spring, a sealed fountain.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will in no way be disappointed, but with all boldness, as always, now also Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death.

May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now she who is a widow indeed and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

But thanks be to God, who puts the same earnest care for you into the heart of Titus.

Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily: anxiety for all the assemblies.

(but how could someone who doesn’t know how to rule one’s own house take care of God’s assembly?)

This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;