Matthew 5:27-30

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Lust

²⁷^(A)“You have heard that it was said, ^(B)‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ²⁸But I say to you that ^(C)everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹^(D)If your right eye ^(E)causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into ^(F)hell. ³⁰^(G)And if your right hand ^(H)causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into ^(I)hell.

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1 Corinthians 7:1-5

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Principles for Marriage

7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: ^(A)“It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” ²But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. ³^(B)The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. ⁴For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. ⁵^(C)Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, ^(D)so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.