Purity of heart and body: Jesus on the heart of the matter, and Paul on honouring God with the body.

Job 31:1

1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

See also: James 1:14-15, Matthew 5:28-29

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Matt 5:8

8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

See also: Acts of Paul and Thecla 1:12, Psalms 51:10

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Matt 5:27-28

27Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

See also: Deuteronomy 5:18, Proverbs 6:32

28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

See also: Testament of Reuben 2:1, Job 31:1

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1 Thess 4:3-5

3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

See also: Romans 12:2, 1 Peter 4:2

4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

See also: 1 Thessalonians 4:3, Romans 1:24

5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

See also: 1 Peter 1:14, 1 Corinthians 6:18

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1 Cor 6:18-20

18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

See also: Testament of Reuben 2:17, 1 Peter 2:11

19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

See also: Ignatius to the Philadelphians 2:15, 2 Corinthians 6:16

20For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

See also: 1 Corinthians 7:23, Romans 12:1

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