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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.

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

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, ⁶and that no one should overwhelm or circumvent his brother in business. For the Lord is the vindicator of all these things, just as we have preached and testified to you. ⁷For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification. ⁸And so, whoever despises these teachings, does not despise man, but God, who has even provided his Holy Spirit within us.

²³Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.

⁸Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.

⁸Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

²Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. ³For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 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,

²⁴Do not judge according to appearances, but instead judge a just judgment.”

²⁵Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.

⁷Let the impious one abandon his way, and the iniquitous man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will take pity on him, and to our God, for he is great in forgiveness.

³⁰For in the resurrection, they shall neither marry, nor be given in marriage. Instead, they shall be like the Angels of God in heaven. ³¹But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken by God, saying to you: ³²‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?’ He is not the God of the dead, but of the living.” ³³And when the crowds heard this, they wondered at his doctrine. ³⁴But the Pharisees, hearing that he had caused the Sadducees to be silent, came together as one. ³⁵And one of them, a doctor of the law, questioned him, to test him:

⁵and height that extols itself contrary to the wisdom of God, and leading every intellect into the captivity of obedience to Christ,