Bible verses about "intimacy" | Living_Oracles

¹⁹ Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these. Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰ sorcery, enmities, strifes, emulations, wraths, brawlings, factions, sects, ²¹ envying, murders, intoxications, revellings, and such like: concerning which I foretell you now, as I also have foretold, that they who practice these things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

¹ In like manner, let the wives be in subjection to their own husbands; that, indeed, if any obey not the word, they, without the word, may be won by the behavior of their wives, ² (when they behold you chaste behavior, joined with reverence:) ³ whose adorning, let it not be that which is external-the plaiting of hair, trinkets of gold, or finery of dress; ⁴ but-the hidden man of the heart, with the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which, in the sight of God, is of great value. ⁵ For thus, anciently, the holy women, also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands; ⁶ even as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord; whose daughters you are become, doing well, and not fearing any terror. ⁷ In like manner, husbands, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife, as the weaker vessel, and as joint heirs of the favor of life, that your prayers be not hindered. ⁸ Finally, be all of one mind, sympathizing, lovers of the brethren, tender-hearted, courteous- ⁹ not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, on the contrary, bless: knowing that to this you were called, that you might inherit the blessing. ¹⁰ "For he who is desirous to enjoy life, and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. ¹¹ Let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it. ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their supplication; but the face of the Lord is against the workers of iniquity." ¹³ Besides, who is he that will do evil to you, if you be imitators of the Good One? ¹⁴ Nevertheless, although you even suffer for righteousness' sake, you are happy. Therefore, do not fear their fear, neither be troubled: ¹⁵ but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and be always prepared for giving an answer, with meekness and reverence, to every one who asks of you a reason for the hope which is in you. ¹⁶ Hold fast a good conscience, that, whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may be put to shame who arraign your good behavior in Christ. ¹⁷ For it is better to suffer as well doers, if the will of God appoints it, than as evil doers. ¹⁸ For even Christ once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death, indeed, in the flesh, but made alive by the Spirit. ¹⁹ By which, also, he made proclamation to the spirits in prison, ²⁰ who formerly were disobedient, when the patience of God once waited, in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were effectually saved through water- ²¹ the antitype, immersion, does, also, now save us, (not putting away the filth of the flesh; but seeking of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ; ²² who, having gone into heaven, is at the right hand of God; angels, and authorities, and powers, being subjected to him.

²⁸ But I say to you, whoever looks on another man's wife, in order to cherish impure desire, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

² Nevertheless, on account of uncleanness, let every man have a wife of his own, and let every woman have her own husband.

³ for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom- ⁴ that every one of you should know how to possess his own body in sanctification and honor- ⁵ not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God.

¹³ For you, brethren, have been called into liberty; only use not this liberty for an occasion to the flesh; but through love, assiduously serve one another.

¹ Though I could speak with the tongues of men, of angels, but have not love, I become as sounding brass, or a noisy cymbal. ² And though I have prophecy, and know all secrets, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And though I spend all my goods in feeding the poor, and though I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I am nothing profited. ⁴ Love suffers long, and is kind. Love envies not. Love does not vaunt; is not puffed up; ⁵ does not behave itself unbecomingly; does not seek its own things; is not exasperated; does not imagine evil; ⁶ does not rejoice in iniquity, but greatly rejoices in the truth: ⁷ covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails: but, whether prophecies, they will be out of use: or foreign languages, they shall cease: or science, it shall be abolished. ⁹ For we know only in part, and prophesy in part. ¹⁰ But when perfection is come, then what is in part will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I conceived as a child, I reasoned as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. ¹² For now we seek through a glass obscurely; but then, face to face: now, I know in part; but then, I shall fully know, even as I am fully known. ¹³ And now abide faith, hope, love, these three: but the greatest of these is love.

²⁶ For this, God delivered them over to shameful passions; for even their females changed the natural use unto what is contrary to nature. ²⁷ In like manner, also, the males, leaving the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward one another, males with males, working out that which is shameful, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.

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

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

⁵ Mortify, therefore, your members which are on the earth; fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and licentiousness, which is idolatry;

⁷ In like manner, husbands, dwell with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife, as the weaker vessel, and as joint heirs of the favor of life, that your prayers be not hindered. ⁸ Finally, be all of one mind, sympathizing, lovers of the brethren, tender-hearted, courteous- ⁹ not returning evil for evil, or railing for railing; but, on the contrary, bless: knowing that to this you were called, that you might inherit the blessing. ¹⁰ "For he who is desirous to enjoy life, and to see good days, let him restrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. ¹¹ Let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him turn away from evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and pursue it. ¹² For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their supplication; but the face of the Lord is against the workers of iniquity."

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God: and every one who loves, has been begotten by God, and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love, does not know God; for God is love.

¹⁸ Flee uncleanness. Every sin which a man commits, is without the body: but he who commits uncleanness, sins against his own body.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and the bed unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

¹ Now, concerning the things of which you wrote me: It is good for a man not to marry a woman. ² Nevertheless, on account of uncleanness, let every man have a wife of his own, and let every woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband fulfill his obligations to his wife: and in like manner, also, the wife to the husband. ⁴ The wife has not the command of her own person, but the husband: and in like manner, also, the husband has not the command of his own person, but the wife. ⁵ Deprive not one another, unless, perhaps, by consent, for a time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; and do you come again together, that Satan may not tempt you through your incontinency. ⁶ But this which follows I speak as an advice, and not as an injunction, ⁷ that I wish all men to be as I myself am. However, each has a proper gift from God; one, indeed, after this manner, and another after that. ⁸ I say, to the unmarried men, and to the widows, it is good for them if they can remain even as I do. ⁹ Yet, if they can not live continently, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to be in pain. ¹⁰ Now, those who have married I charge, (yet not I, but the Lord;) let not a wife depart from her husband: ¹¹ but if she even depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband; and a husband must not put away his wife. ¹² But the rest I command, not the Lord; if any brother have an infidel wife, who herself is well pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away. ¹³ And a woman who has an infidel husband, who himself is well pleased to dwell with her, let her not put him away. ¹⁴ For the infidel husband is sanctified by the wife, and the infidel wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise, certainly, your children were unclean; whereas, indeed, they are holy. ¹⁵ But if the infidel depart, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not in bondage with such; but God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, O wife! whether you shall save your husband? And how do you know, O husband! whether you shall save your wife? ¹⁷ But as God has distributed to every one, and as the Lord has called every one, so let him walk; and so, in all the congregations, I ordain. ¹⁸ Has any circumcised one been called? Let him not be uncircumcised. Has any one been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. ²⁰ Let every one remain in the same calling in which he was called. ²¹ Were you called, being a bondman? Be not careful to be made free. Yet, if you can be made free, prefer it. ²² For a bondman, who is called by the Lord, is the Lord's freedman. In like manner, also, a freedman who is called, is Christ's bondman. ²³ You were bought with a price: become not the slaves of men. ²⁴ Brethren, in what state each one was called, in that let him remain with God. ²⁵ Now, concerning virgins, I have not a commandment of the Lord: but, I give my judgment, as having obtained mercy of the Lord, to be faithful. ²⁶ I declare this, then, to be good, on account of the present distress; namely, that it is good for a man who is unmarried, to continue so. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife. ²⁸ And yet, if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she has not sinned: nevertheless, affliction in the flesh such shall have; but I spare you. ²⁹ Now, this I say, brethren, the time being short, it remains that both they who have wives, should be as not having wives; ³⁰ and they who weep, as not weeping; and they who rejoice, as not rejoicing; and they who buy, as not possessing; ³¹ and they who use this world, as not abusing it: for the form of this world passes by. ³² Besides, I would have you without anxious care. The unmarried man anxiously cares for the things of the Lord; how he shall please the Lord. ³³ But he who is married, anxiously cares for the things of the world; how he shall please his wife. ³⁴ There is the like difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried woman anxiously cares for the things of the Lord; that she may be holy, both in body and spirit: but she who is married, anxiously cares for the things of the world; how she shall please her husband. ³⁵ Now, this I say, for your own benefit; not with a view to lay a snare for you, but for that which is becoming, and best adapted to a steady, uninterrupted adherence to the Lord. ³⁶ But if any one thinks he acts improperly toward his virgin, if she be above age, unmarried, and so needs to be married; let him do what she inclines, he does not sin: let such marry. ³⁷ But he who stands firm in his heart; not having necessity, and has power concerning his own will; and has determined this in his own heart, to keep his virgin, does well. ³⁸ So, then, even he who gives her in marriage, does well; but he who gives her not in marriage, does better. ³⁹ A wife is bound, as long as her husband lives; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she pleases; only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier if she continue as she is. This is my opinion; and I think I have the Spirit of God.