Bible verses about "flirting" | Moffatt

²⁴ So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, — ²⁵ since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen. ²⁶ That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural, ²⁷ and in the same way the males have abandoned the natural use of women and flamed out in lust for one another, men perpetrating shameless acts with their own sex and getting in their own persons the due recompense of their perversity. ²⁸ Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper, ²⁹ till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity — slanderers, ³⁰ defamers, loathed by God, outrageous, haughty, boastful, inventive in evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹ devoid of conscience, false to their word, callous, merciless; ³² though they know God's decree that people who practise such vice deserve death, they not only do it themselves but applaud those who practise it.

¹² But those people! — like irrational animals, creatures of mere instinct, born for capture and corruption, they scoff at what they are ignorant of; and like animals they will suffer corruption and ruin, ¹³ done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight — spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! — ¹⁴ their eyes are full of harlotry, insatiable for sin; their own hearts trained to lust, they beguile unsteady souls. Accursed generation!

¹ My dear children, I am writing this to you that you may not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father in Jesus Christ the just; ² he is himself the propitiation for our sins, though not for ours alone but also for the whole world. ³ This is how we may be sure we know him, by obeying his commands. ⁴ He who says, 'I know him,' but does not obey his commands, is a liar and the truth is not in him; ⁵ but whoever obeys his word, in him love to God is really complete. This is how we may be sure we are in him: ⁶ he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived. ⁷ Beloved, I am not writing you any new command, but an old command which you have had from the very beginning: the old command is the word you have heard. ⁸ And yet it is a new command I am writing to you — realized in him and also in yourselves, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. ⁹ He who says he is 'in the light' and hates his brother, is in darkness still. ¹⁰ He who loves his brother remains in the light — and in the light there is no pitfall; ¹¹ but he who hates his brother is in darkness, he walks in darkness and does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes. ¹² My dear children, I am writing to you, because your sins are forgiven for his sake: ¹³ fathers, I am writing to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I am writing to you, because you have conquered the evil One. Children, I have written to you, because you know the Father: ¹⁴ fathers, I have written to you, because you know him who is from the very beginning: young men, I have written to you, because you are strong, and the word of God remains within you, and you have conquered the evil One. ¹⁵ Love not the world, nor yet what is in the world; if anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world; ¹⁷ and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever. ¹⁸ Children, it is the last hour. You have learned that 'Antichrist is coming.' Well, but many antichrists have appeared — which makes us sure it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They withdrew from us, but they did not belong to us; had they belonged to us, they would have remained with us, but they withdrew to make it plain that they are none of us. ²⁰ Now, you have been anointed by the holy One, and you all possess knowledge. ²¹ I am not writing to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it, and know that no lie has any connexion with the truth. ²² Who is the real liar? who but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is 'antichrist,' he who disowns the Father and the Son. ²³ No one who disowns the Son can possess the Father: he who confesses the Son possesses the Father as well. ²⁴ Let that remain in you which you learned from the very beginning; if what you learned from the very beginning remains with you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father. ²⁵ Now this is what he has promised you, eternal life. ²⁶ I am writing to you in this way about those who would deceive you, ²⁷ but the unction you received from him remains within you, and you really need no teaching from anyone; simply remain in him, for his unction teaches you about everything and is true and is no lie — remain in him, as it has taught you to do. ²⁸ Remain within him now, my dear children, so that when he appears we may have confidence, instead of shrinking from him in shame at his arrival. ²⁹ As you know he is just, be sure that everyone who practises righteousness is born of him.

⁸ Finally, brothers, keep in mind whatever is true, whatever is worthy, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is attractive, whatever is high-toned, all excellence, all merit.

¹¹ For the grace of God has appeared to save all men, ¹² and it schools us to renounce irreligion and worldly passions and to live a life of self-mastery, of integrity, and of piety in this present world,

²⁸ But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.