To: stfassisi
I want a biblical scripture. Thanks.
45 posted on
03/29/2009 5:56:57 PM PDT by
marajade
(Yes, I'm a SW freak!)
To: marajade
“Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” (1 Corinthians 6:18-20)
47 posted on
03/29/2009 6:03:13 PM PDT by
stfassisi
((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
To: marajade
Please read Ephesian 5; that should be enough to prove this point.
Ephesians
Chapter 5
- 1
- So be imitators of God, 1 as beloved children,
- 2
- and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma.
- 3
- Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones,
- 4
- no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving.
- 5
- Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person, that is, an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- 6
- Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient. 2
- 7
- So do not be associated with them.
- 8
- For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light,
- 9
- for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.
- 10
- Try to learn what is pleasing to the Lord.
- 11
- Take no part in the fruitless works of darkness; rather expose them,
- 12
- for it is shameful even to mention the things done by them in secret;
- 13
- but everything exposed by the light becomes visible,
- 14
- for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore, it says: "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light." 3
- 15
- 4 Watch carefully then how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise,
- 16
- making the most of the opportunity, because the days are evil.
- 17
- Therefore, do not continue in ignorance, but try to understand what is the will of the Lord.
- 18
- And do not get drunk on wine, in which lies debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
- 19
- addressing one another (in) psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and playing to the Lord in your hearts,
- 20
- giving thanks always and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God the Father.
- 21
- 5 Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. 6
- 22
- Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord.
- 23
- For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body.
- 24
- As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.
- 25
- Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her
- 26
- to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word,
- 27
- that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
- 28
- So (also) husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
- 29
- For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church,
- 30
- because we are members of his body.
- 31
- "For this reason a man shall leave (his) father and (his) mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
- 32
- This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.
- 33
- In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.
72 posted on
03/29/2009 9:29:36 PM PDT by
Salvation
( †With God all things are possible.†)
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