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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,
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
18Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.
16If a man has led astray a virgin not yet betrothed, and he has slept with her, he shall pay her dowry and have her as a wife. 17If the father of the virgin is not willing to give her, he shall pay money according to manner of a dowry, which virgins are accustomed to receive.
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.
1And on the third day, a wedding was held in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2Now Jesus was also invited to the wedding, with his disciples. 3And when the wine was failing, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4And Jesus said to her: “What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet arrived.” 5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” 6Now in that place, there were six stone water jars, for the purification ritual of the Jews, containing two or three measures each.
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.
21A woman, when she is giving birth, has sorrow, because her hour has arrived. But when she has given birth to the child, then she no longer remembers the difficulties, because of the joy: for a man has been born into the world.
2And being with child, she cried out while giving birth, and she was suffering in order to give birth.
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.