Leviticus 15:18
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18 If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and (A)be unclean until the evening.
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1 Peter 2:11
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11 Beloved, I urge you (A)as sojourners and exiles (B)to abstain from the passions of the flesh, (C)which wage war against your soul.
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Hebrews 13:4
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4 (A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge (B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.
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2 Timothy 2:22
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22 So (A)flee (B)youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with (C)those who call on the Lord (D)from a pure heart.
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
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3 For this is the will of God, (A)your sanctification:[a] (B)that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own (C)body[b] in holiness and (D)honor, 5 not in (E)the passion of lust (F)like the Gentiles (G)who do not know God;
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or your holiness
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel
Ephesians 5:3-11
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3 But (A)sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness (B)must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be (C)no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, (D)which are out of place, but instead (E)let there be thanksgiving. 5 For you may be sure of this, that (F)everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous ((G)that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 (H)Let no one (I)deceive you with empty words, for because of these things (J)the wrath of God comes upon (K)the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore (L)do not become partners with them; 8 for (M)at one time you were (N)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. (O)Walk as children of light 9 (for (P)the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and (Q)try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 (R)Take no part in the (S)unfruitful (T)works of darkness, but instead (U)expose them.
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Ephesians 4:17-19
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17 Now this I say and (A)testify in the Lord, (B)that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, (C)in the futility of their minds. 18 They (D)are darkened in their understanding, (E)alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to (F)their hardness of heart. 19 They (G)have become callous and (H)have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
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1 Corinthians 6:18
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18 (A)Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin[a] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person (B)sins against his own body.
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- 1 Corinthians 6:18 Or Every sin
1 Corinthians 6:12
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Flee Sexual Immorality
12 (A)“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.
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Psalm 51:5
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5 Behold, (A)I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
1 Samuel 21:4-5
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4 And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is (A)holy bread—(B)if the young men have kept themselves from women.” 5 And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”
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Leviticus 15:5
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5 And anyone who touches his bed (A)shall wash his clothes and (B)bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.
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Exodus 19:15
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15 And he said to the people, “Be ready for the (A)third day; (B)do not go near a woman.”
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