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³For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication, ⁴that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

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.

¹⁸Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.

¹⁴Yet truly, each one is tempted by his own desires, having been enticed and drawn away. ¹⁵Thereafter, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin. Yet truly sin, when it has been consummated, produces death.

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,

¹⁶So then, I say: Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.

⁹If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.

⁷Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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.

¹⁵For I do things that I do not understand. For I do not do the good that I want to do. But the evil that I hate is what I do. ¹⁶So, when I do what I do not want to do, I am in agreement with the law, that the law is good. ¹⁷But I am then acting not according to the law, but according to the sin which lives within me. ¹⁸For I know that what is good does not live within me, that is, within my flesh. For the willingness to do good lies close to me, but the carrying out of that good, I cannot reach. ¹⁹For I do not do the good that I want to do. But instead, I do the evil that I do not want to do. ²⁰Now if I do what I am not willing to do, it is no longer I who am doing it, but the sin which lives within me.

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,

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

¹And so, I beg you, brothers, by the mercy of God, that you offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, with the subservience of your mind. ²And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.

¹I reached an agreement with my eyes, that I would not so much as think about a virgin.