chastity
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3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,
28But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should also act similarly toward her husband. 4It is not the wife, but the husband, who has power over her body. But, similarly also, it is not the husband, but the wife, who has power over his body. 5So, do not fail in your obligations to one another, except perhaps by consent, for a limited time, so that you may empty yourselves for prayer. And then, return together again, lest Satan tempt you by means of your abstinence. 6But I am saying this, neither as an indulgence, nor as a commandment.
18Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body. 19Or do you not know that your bodies are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? 20For you have been bought at a great price. Glorify and carry God in your body.
5Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,
3But let not any kind of fornication, or impurity, or rapacity so much as be named among you, just as is worthy of the saints,
13Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.
14You shall not commit adultery.
7For I would prefer it if you were all like myself. But each person has his proper gift from God: one in this way, yet another in that way. 8But I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them, if they would remain as they are, just as I also am. 9But if they cannot restrain themselves, they should marry. For it is better to marry, than to be burned.
7For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.