Proverbs 7:8

But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Nevertheless you have a few names in Sardis that didn’t defile their garments. They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy.

“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

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

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

but the goal of this command is love, out of a pure heart and a good conscience and sincere faith,

Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.

If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are revealed to God, and I hope that we are revealed also in your consciences.

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, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.

Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.

Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”

Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.

Let’s not commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

“The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it is a woolen garment, or a linen garment;

Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

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, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

Abstain from every form of evil.

The grace of our Lord abounded exceedingly with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon—as you go toward Gerar—to Gaza—as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim—to Lasha.

Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.

whether it is in warp or woof; of linen or of wool; whether in a leather, or in anything made of leather;

The clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day. On the seventh day, he shall purify him. He shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at evening.

Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.

Samson went to Gaza, and saw there a prostitute, and went in to her.

These are the golden tumors which the Philistines returned for a trespass offering to Yahweh: for Ashdod one, for Gaza one, for Ashkelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;

Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

“For long ago I broke off your yoke, and burst your bonds. You said, ‘I will not serve;’ for on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed yourself, playing the prostitute.

Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

“Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat waiting for them by the road, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.

in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

For behold, this same thing, that you were grieved in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

If any man doesn’t obey our word in this letter, note that man, that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,

and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.

For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury.”

The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.