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17Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.

4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

27You have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 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.

7Do not choose to wander astray. God is not to be ridiculed. 8For whatever a man will have sown, that also shall he reap. For whoever sows in his flesh, from the flesh he shall also reap corruption. But whoever sows in the Spirit, from the Spirit he shall reap eternal life.

5Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, “I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you.”

10Whoever is faithful in what is least, is also faithful in what is greater. And whoever is unjust in what is small, is also unjust in what is greater. 11So then, if you have not been faithful with iniquitous mammon, who will trust you with what is true? 12And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours?

9Behold, I am instructing you. Be strengthened, and be steadfast. Do not dread, and do not fear. For the Lord your God is with you in all things, wherever you may go.”

26But if anyone considers himself to be religious, but he does not restrain his tongue, but instead seduces his own heart: such a one’s religion is vanity.