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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 20:14

You shall not commit adultery.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:10, 11, 16–22

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. / Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 5:15–21

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. / Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? / Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 6:24, 25

to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. / Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 7:1–5

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. / Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. / Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 31:3

Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 5:28

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 15:20

Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 13:13

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 6:13–19

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. / By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also. / Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 7:1, 2, 7–9, 25, 26, 36, 37

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations. / But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband. / I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 5:3

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 4:3, 7

For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; / For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

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Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Revelation 14:1–5

Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads. / And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps. / And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

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