Purity
Purity of heart and body: Jesus on the heart of the matter, and Paul on honouring God with the body.
Job 31:1
Read in full chapter →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
Matt 5:8
Read in full chapter →8Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
See also: Acts of Paul and Thecla 1:12, Psalms 51:10
Matt 5:27-28
Read in full chapter →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
1 Thess 4:3-5
Read in full chapter →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
1 Cor 6:18-20
Read in full chapter →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