Bible verses about "intimacy" | Haweis

²⁸ but I say unto you, That every one who looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

² But because of the whoredoms, let every man have his own wife, and every wife her own husband.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness, ²⁰ idolatry, magical charms, enmities, strifes, jealousies, animosities, quarrels, divisions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, murders, drunkenness, revels, and the like of these, concerning which I tell you now, as I have told you already, that they who live in such practices shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹ LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if some obey not the word, by their wives' conduct without the word, they may be won over; ² being eye-witnesses of your chaste behaviour with timidity. ³ Whose adorning let it not be that exterior one of braided locks, and golden trimmings, and dresses put on with nicety; ⁴ but let it be the hidden man of the heart, with that incorruptible ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God highly valuable. ⁵ For so in times of old the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands; ⁶ as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye are, if ye do well, and are not affrighted with any terror. ⁷ Ye husbands, in like manner dwell with them discreetly, putting respect on the dear woman as being the weaker vessel, and as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may meet no interruption. ⁸ Finally, be all like-minded, sympathizing, loving fraternally, compassionate, friendly hearted, ⁹ not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, contrariwise, wishing men every blessing; knowing that hereunto ye have been called, that ye should inherit the [divine] benediction. ¹⁰ "For he that would love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile. ¹¹ Let him depart from every wicked thing, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it." ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who practise wicked things. ¹³ And who will do you harm if ye be imitators of him that is good? ¹⁴ But if ye should even suffer for righteousness, blessed are ye: be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled, ¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be always ready with your reply to every man who demands a reason respecting the hope which is in you with meekness and fear: ¹⁶ keeping a good conscience; that whereas they malign you, as evil doers, they may be confounded who take pleasure in ridiculing your good conduct in Christ. ¹⁷ For it is better (if it be God's will) to suffer as well doers than as evil doers. ¹⁸ For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, put to death indeed in the flesh, but raised to life by the Spirit: ¹⁹ by which also he went and preached to those spirits imprisoned; ²⁰ who in time of old were disobedient, when the long suffering of God in the days of Noe waited, while the ark was preparing, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were preserved through the water. ²¹ The antitype to which baptism now saveth us (not the mere removal of filth from the flesh, but the engagement of a good conscience to God), by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: ²² who is at the right hand of God, gone into heaven, angels and dominations and powers being put in subjection under him.

³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom; ⁴ that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, ⁵ not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;

¹ THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become as sounding brass, and tinkling cymbal. ² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries, and all manner of science; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I deal out all my goods in alms, and deliver up my body that I should be burned, but have not love, I am nothing advantaged by it. ⁴ Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated [with pride], ⁵ doth not act unseemly, seeketh not her own advantage, is not passionate, thinketh no evil; ⁶ rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth in the truth; ⁷ beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. ⁸ Love never faileth: but if there be prophetic gifts, they shall be no more; if tongues, they shall cease; if science, it shall vanish away. ⁹ For we know partially, and prophesy partially. ¹⁰ But when that which is perfect cometh, then that which is in part shall be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I grew a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we see by reflected light, indistinctly; but then face to face: now I know partially; but then shall I know even as I am known. ¹³ But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.

²⁶ For this cause God gave them up to dishonourable passions. For even their women did change the natural use into that which was contrary to nature; ²⁷ and likewise the men also, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lewdness one towards another; men with men committing indecency, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their delusion, which was meet.

¹⁹ Husbands, love your wives, and use no asperity against them.

¹³ For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.

⁹ If we confess our sins, faithful is he and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

⁵ Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; because love is from God, and every one who loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. ⁸ He that loveth not, never knew God; for God is love.

⁷ Ye husbands, in like manner dwell with them discreetly, putting respect on the dear woman as being the weaker vessel, and as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may meet no interruption. ⁸ Finally, be all like-minded, sympathizing, loving fraternally, compassionate, friendly hearted, ⁹ not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, contrariwise, wishing men every blessing; knowing that hereunto ye have been called, that ye should inherit the [divine] benediction. ¹⁰ "For he that would love life, and see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking guile. ¹¹ Let him depart from every wicked thing, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it." ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are upon the just, and his ears open to their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against those who practise wicked things.

¹⁸ Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.

⁴ Marriage is honourable for all persons, and the marriage bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

¹ NOW with regard to those things concerning which ye have written unto me, it were good for a man not to touch a woman. ² But because of the whoredoms, let every man have his own wife, and every wife her own husband. ³ Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence, and in like manner also the wife to the husband. ⁴ The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife. ⁵ Defraud not one another, except it may be by consent occasionally, that ye may have more leisure for fasting and prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence. ⁶ But in this I speak my opinion only, not authoritatively. ⁷ For I would that all men were even as myself: but every man hath his peculiar gift from God, one of this sort, and another of that. ⁸ I say then to the unmarried and the widows, that it is becoming them if they abide as I am. ⁹ But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. ¹⁰ But to the married not I command, but the Lord, That the wife be not separated from the husband: ¹¹ and even if she should be separated, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife. ¹² But to the others I speak, not the Lord, If any brother hath a wife unbelieving, yet she chuseth to dwell with him, let him not put her away. ¹³ And the wife which hath a husband not a believer, and he chuses to dwell with her, let her not put him away. ¹⁴ For the husband that believeth not is sanctified by the wife, and the wife who believeth not is sanctified by the husband: else indeed your children were unclean, but now are they holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving person depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in these cases, but God hath called us unto peace. ¹⁶ For how knowest thou, O wife, but thou shalt save thy husband? and how knowest thou, O husband, but thou shalt save thy wife? ¹⁷ Nevertheless as God has bestowed the gift on every man as the Lord hath called every man, so let him walk, and so I give command in all the churches. ¹⁸ Is any man called being circumcised? let him not affect uncircumcision. Is any man called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the observance of the commandments of God. ²⁰ Let every one abide in the calling in which he is called. ²¹ Art thou called being a slave? let it give thee no concern; but if thou canst also obtain thy freedom, rather make use of it. ²² For he that is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freed man: in like manner also, he that is called, being a free man, is the servant of Christ. ²³ Have you been redeemed with a price? become not the slaves of men. ²⁴ Let every one, brethren, in the vocation wherein he is called, therein abide with God. ²⁵ Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord; but I offer my opinion, as having obtained mercy from the Lord to be faithful. ²⁶ I think then that this is becoming, considering our present straits, that it is proper for a man to be thus. ²⁷ Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. ²⁸ But if thou shouldst marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned; though such will have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you. ²⁹ Now this I say, brethren, that the time is short. The conclusion is, that even they who have wives, should be as though they had not; ³⁰ and they who weep as though they wept not; and they who rejoice as though they rejoiced not; and they that purchase as though they possessed not; ³¹ and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. ³² But I would have you to be free from anxiety. He who is unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord: ³³ but he who is married is anxious about the things of the world, how he shall please his wife. ³⁴ A wife and a virgin hath different pursuits: the unmarried woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about the things of the world, how she shall please her husband. ³⁵ Now I say this for your own advantage, and not that I should lay a snare in your way, but as what is seemly, and that you may wait on the Lord without distraction. ³⁶ But if a person supposes it would be unseemly for a virgin of his if she should pass the flower of her age [in celibacy], and that duty directs it should be so, let him do as he is inclined, he doth not sin: let such marry. ³⁷ But he that is stedfast in his heart, not having any necessity, but retaineth power over his own inclination, and hath determined this in his heart that he will preserve his own virgin state, doeth well. ³⁸ Wherefore though he who giveth in marriage doeth well, yet he who avoids a matrimonial connection, doeth better. ³⁹ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband be dead, she is free to be married to whomsoever she will, but only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is more blessed if she abide as she is, in my opinion: and I think I have the spirit of God.