Bible verses about "intimacy" | LITV

¹⁸ And Jehovah God said, It is not good, the man being alone. I will make a helper suited to him. ¹⁹ And Jehovah God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the heavens out of the ground. And He brought them to the man, to see what he would call it. And all which the man might call it, each living soul, that was its name. ²⁰ And the man called names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every animal of the field. But no helper suited to him was found for a man. ²¹ And Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh underneath. ²² And Jehovah God formed the rib which He had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. ²³ And the man said, This now at last is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. For this shall be called Woman, because this has been taken out of man. ²⁴ Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh. ²⁵ And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.

²⁸ But I say to you, Everyone looking at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, fightings, jealousies, angers, rivalries, divisions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkennesses, wild parties, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that the ones practicing such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

² but because of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

¹ Likewise, wives, submitting yourselves to your own husbands, that even if any disobey the word, through the behavior of the wives, without a word they will be won, ² observing your pure behavior in fear. ³ Of whom let it not be the outward act of braiding of hairs, and of putting gold around, or of clothing of adorning garments, ⁴ but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of the meek and quiet spirit, which is of great value before God. ⁵ For so once indeed the holy women who were hoping on God adorned themselves, submitting themselves to their own husbands, ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord; whose children you became, doing good, and fearing no terror. Gen. 18:12 ⁷ Likewise, husbands, dwelling together according to knowledge, as with a weaker vessel, the female, bestowing honor, as truly being co-heirs of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers. ⁸ And, finally, be all of one mind, sympathetic, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly, ⁹ not giving back evil for evil, or reviling against reviling; but, on the contrary, give blessing; knowing that you were called to this in order that you might inherit blessing. ¹⁰ "For the one desiring to love life, and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, even his lips not to speak guile. ¹¹ Let him turn aside from evil, and let him do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it; ¹² because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against any doing evil things." LXX-Psa. 33:13-17; MT-Psa. 34:12-16 ¹³ And who is the one harming you if you become imitators of the good? ¹⁴ But if you truly suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you . "But do not fear their fear, nor be troubled. ¹⁵ But sanctify" Isa. 8:12, 13 the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give an answer to everyone asking you a reason concerning the hope in you, with meekness and fear, ¹⁶ having a good conscience, that while they speak against you as evildoers, they may be shamed, those falsely accusing your good behavior in Christ. ¹⁷ For it is better, if the will of God wills it, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. ¹⁸ Because even Christ once suffered concerning sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God; indeed being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit; ¹⁹ in which also, going in to the spirits in prison, He then proclaimed ²⁰ to disobeying ones, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, an ark having been prepared in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water. ²¹ Which figure now also saves us, baptism (not a putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God through the resurrection of Jesus Christ; ²² who going into Heaven is at the right of God, the angels, and authorities, and powers being subjected to Him).

³ For this is God's will, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, ⁴ each one of you to know to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, ⁵ not in passion of lust, even as also the nations do, not knowing God;

¹ If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophecies, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ And if I give out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, but I do not have love, I am not profited anything. ⁴ Love has patience, is kind; love is not envious; love is not vain, is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave indecently, does not pursue its own things, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. ⁷ Love quietly covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be caused to cease; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be caused to cease. ⁹ For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; ¹⁰ but when the perfect thing comes, then that which is in part will be caused to cease. ¹¹ When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I caused to cease the things of the infant. ¹² For now we see through a mirror in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will fully know even as I also was fully known. ¹³ And now faith, hope, and love, these three things remain; but the greatest of these is love.

¹³ For, brothers, you were called to freedom. Only do not use the freedom for an opening to the flesh. But through love serve one another.

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them up to dishonorable passions, for even their females changed the natural use to that contrary to nature. ²⁷ And likewise, the males also forsaking the natural use of the female burned in their lust toward one another, males with males working out shamefulness, and receiving back within themselves the reward which was fitting for their error.

¹⁹ Husbands, love the wives and do not be bitter against them.

⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ Then put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication; uncleanness; passion; evil lust; and covetousness, which is idolatry;

²⁴ Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh.

¹⁵ And has He not made you one? Yet the vestige of the Spirit is in him. And what of the one? He was seeking a seed of God. Then guard your spirit, and do not deal treacherously with the wife of your youth.

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God. ⁸ The one who does not love has not known God, because God is love.

⁷ Likewise, husbands, dwelling together according to knowledge, as with a weaker vessel, the female, bestowing honor, as truly being co-heirs of the grace of life, not cutting off your prayers. ⁸ And, finally, be all of one mind, sympathetic, loving the brothers, tenderhearted, friendly, ⁹ not giving back evil for evil, or reviling against reviling; but, on the contrary, give blessing; knowing that you were called to this in order that you might inherit blessing. ¹⁰ "For the one desiring to love life, and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, even his lips not to speak guile. ¹¹ Let him turn aside from evil, and let him do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it; ¹² because the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against any doing evil things." LXX-Psa. 33:13-17; MT-Psa. 34:12-16

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may do is outside the body, but he doing fornication sins against his own body.

⁴ Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

¹ But concerning what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman; ² but because of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband. ³ Let the husband give due kindness to the wife, and likewise the wife also to the husband. ⁴ The wife does not have authority of her own body, but the husband. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. ⁵ Do not deprive one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may be free for fasting and prayer. And come together again on the same place, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinence. ⁶ But I say this by permission, not by command. ⁷ But I desire all men also to be as myself. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, and one that way. ⁸ But I say to the unmarried men, and to the widows, it is good for them if they also remain as I. ⁹ But if they do not have self control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to be inflamed. ¹⁰ But I command the ones being married (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband; ¹¹ but if indeed she is separated, remain unmarried, or be reconciled to the husband; and a husband not to leave his wife. ¹² But to the rest I say, not the Lord, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, let him not leave her. ¹³ And a woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, let her not leave him. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband; else, then, your children are unclean, but now they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving one separates, let them be separated; the brother or the sister is not in bondage in such matters; but God has called us in peace. ¹⁶ For what do you know, wife, whether you will save the husband? Or what do you know, husband, whether you will save the wife? ¹⁷ Only as God has divided to each, each as the Lord has called, so let him walk. So I command in the churches. ¹⁸ Was anyone called having been circumcised? Do not be uncircumcised. Was anyone called in uncircumcision? Do not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of God's commands. ²⁰ Each one in the calling in which he was called, in this remain. ²¹ Were you called as a slave? It does not matter to you. But if you are able to be free, rather use it . ²² For the one called a slave in the Lord is a freed man of the Lord. And likewise, the one called a free man is a slave of Christ. ²³ You were redeemed with a price; do not become slaves of men. ²⁴ Each in whatever state called, brothers, in this remain with God. ²⁵ But about virgins, I have no command of the Lord. But I give judgment, as having received mercy by the Lord to be faithful. ²⁶ Then I think this to be good, because of the present necessity: that it is good for a man to be thus. ²⁷ Have you been bound to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Have you been released from a wife? Do not seek a wife. ²⁸ But if you also marry, you do not sin. And if the virgin marries, she does not sin. But such will have trouble in the flesh. But I am sparing you. ²⁹ But I say this, brothers, that the time has been cut short. For the rest is, that even the ones having wives should be as not having, ³⁰ and those weeping as not weeping, and those rejoicing as not rejoicing, and those buying as not possessing, ³¹ and those using this world as not abusing it; for the mode of this world is passing away. ³² But I desire you to be without care. The unmarried one cares for the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord; ³³ but the one marrying cares for the things of the world, how to please the wife. ³⁴ The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried one cares for the things of the Lord, that she be holy in both body and spirit. But the married one cares for the things of the world, how to please the husband. ³⁵ And I say this for your advantage, not that I put a snare before you, but for the fitting thing, and waiting on the Lord without distraction. ³⁶ But if anyone thinks it behaving indecently toward his virginity (if he is beyond his prime, and so it ought to be), let him do what he desires; he does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷ But he who stands firm in heart, not having necessity, but has authority as to his own will, and has judged this in his heart, to keep his virginity; he does well. ³⁸ So that he that gives in marriage does well, and he that does not give in marriage does better. ³⁹ A wife is bound by law for as long a time as her husband lives; but if her husband sleeps, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier if she remains so, according to my judgment. And I think I also have the Spirit of God.