Chastity

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• General scriptures concerningExodus 20:14Job 31:1Proverbs 2:10Proverbs 2:11Proverbs 2:16–22Proverbs 5:15–21Proverbs 6:24Proverbs 6:25Proverbs 7:1–5Proverbs 31:3Matthew 5:28Acts 15:20Romans 13:131 Corinthians 6:13–191 Corinthians 7:11 Corinthians 7:21 Corinthians 7:7–91 Corinthians 7:251 Corinthians 7:261 Corinthians 7:36
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• INSTANCES OF
• JosephGenesis 39:7–20
• BoazRuth 3:6–13
• Paul1 Corinthians 7

The passages, in Bible order (28)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 39:7–20

   and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

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   “And it came to pass after these things,....

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2. Exodus 20:14

   You shall not commit adultery.

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   “The law cuts away sins of the flesh, but our Redeemer condemns even unlawful thoughts. If therefore they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe if someone rises from the dead, because when will those who neglect to fulfill the lesser precepts of the law grow strong enough to obey the higher commands of our Savior? And indeed it is certain that those who refuse to fulfill his words undoubtedly refuse to believe him.

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3. Ruth 3:6–13

   So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.

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   “And she went down unto the floor,.... From the city of Bethlehem, from her mother-in-law's house there, to the threshingfloor of Boaz, which was at some distance from it, and lower: and did according to all that her mother in law bade her; both before she went, and after: she washed and anointed herself, and put on her best clothes before she went down, and when she was there took care not to make herself known to any, especially to Boaz, and marked the place where he lay down after he had supped.

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4. 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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   “I made a covenant with mine eyes that I should not even think upon a maid. Whereas the soul is invisible, it is in no degree affected by the delightfulness of things corporeal, except that, being closely attached to the body, it has the senses of that body as a kind of opening for going forth. For seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching, are a kind of ways of the mind, by which it should come forth without, and go a lusting after the things that are without the limits of its substance.

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5. Proverbs 2:10

   For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

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   “When wisdom entereth into thine heart,....

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6. Proverbs 2:11

   Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

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   “We read in sacred Scripture, dearly beloved, that holy counsel should keep those who are solicitous for their soul's salvation, as the divine Word puts it: "Holy counsel shall keep you." If holy counsel keeps a soul, that which is unholy not only fails to …

   “Discretion shall preserve thee,.... Which wisdom or the Gospel gives, or the Lord by the means of it; for the Gospel makes a man wise and discreet in the business of salvation, and in his conduct and deportment; and the discretion it gives him will put him upon his guard, and direct him to watch against every error, and every false way. And so the words may be rendered, "discretion will watch over thee"; to keep thee from everything pernicious in doctrine and practice.

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7. Proverbs 2:16–22

   It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

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   “To deliver you from the strange woman, etc. This verse depends on what was said earlier, where it was said, Prudence will watch over you. And the meaning is, Prudence will watch over you, to deliver you from the strange woman. Therefore, because previously Solomon …

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8. Proverbs 5:15–21

   Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

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   “And I hope, O man, that you imitate the example of this kind, so that you yourself may bear fruit of joy and delight! The sweetness of your grace is within yourself, it sprouts from you, it remains in you, it is within you, that is, the joy of your conscience is to be sought within yourself. Therefore, it says: Drink water from your own vessels, and from the fountains of your own wells (Prov., V, 15).

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9. Proverbs 6:24

   to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

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   “To keep thee from the evil woman,....

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10. Proverbs 6:25

    Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

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    “Do not be captured by her glances. This applies to the adulteress. But even if heretics seem to live and act well, be careful not to be deceived by their doctrines.

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11. Proverbs 7:1–5

    My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.

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    “My son, keep my words, etc. And this section is the same as previously explained more fully under the person of the harlot.

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12. Proverbs 31:3

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

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    “And your riches to destroy kings. He gives his riches to destroy kings, who corrupts the hearts of men with earthly delights, so that they do not seek the heavenly goods, in which they can reign perpetually with Christ. For kings are destroyed by riches, …

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13. 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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    “Between πάθος and προπάθεια, that is between actual passion and the first spontaneous movement of the mind, there is this difference: passion is at once a sin; the spontaneous movement of the mind, though it partakes of the evil of sin, is yet not held for an offence committedh. When then one looks upon a woman, and his mind is therewith smitten, there is propassion; if he yields to this he passes from propassion to passion, and then it is no longer the will but the opportunity to sin that is wanting.

    “(Verse 28.) Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Between passion and pre-passion, that is, between feeling and intense feeling, there is a difference: passion is considered a vice, while pre-passion, although it carries the fault of initiation, is not held accountable in the crime. Therefore, whoever looks at a woman and his soul is tickled, he is struck by pre-passion.

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14. 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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    "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the sons of Israel, and tell them: If anyone who is from among the sons of Israel or from among foreigners, who happens to be among you, eats any blood, I shall place my spirit over the spirit which shall have eaten the blood, and I shall abolish it from among the people, since the spirit of every flesh is its blood.

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15. 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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    “Whence the apostle also says: "The night is past, and the day is at hand." Therefore this present age is the night: but the age to come is the day. Whence the apostle says: "The night is past, and the day is at hand. Let us walk honestly, as in the day," he says. As we are to live in the day, that is, in the age to come, so let us now live.

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16. 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.

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    “Whence also he says, that this handiwork is "the temple of God," thus declaring: "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man, therefore, will defile the temple of God, him will God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are." Here he manifestly declares the body to be the temple in which the Spirit dwells.

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