Bible verses about "courtship" | Sawyer

^{1 (2:1)} FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more. ² For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication, ⁴ that each one should know how to have his wife in purity and honor, ⁵ not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God, ⁶ that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified. ⁷ For God has not called us to impurity, but to purity. ⁸ He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.

¹² Here is the patience of the saints, who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

¹ Be followers of me as I also am of Christ. ^{2 (5:1)} I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my [instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them to you. ³ But I wish you to know that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman, the man, and the head of Christ, God. ⁴ Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head. ⁵ But every woman praying or prophesying with her head uncovered disgraces her head; for it is one and the same as if she was shaved. ⁶ For if a woman is not veiled then let her hair be cut off; but if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off, or to be shaved, let her wear a veil. ^{7 (5:2)} For a man ought not to cover his head, being an image and glory of God; but the woman is a glory of man. ⁸ For man is not of woman, but woman of man; ⁹ for man also was not created because of the woman, but woman because of the man. ¹⁰ For this reason ought the woman to have a power [veil] on her head because of the angels. ¹¹ But neither is woman without man, nor man without woman in the Lord; ¹² for as the woman is of the man, so also the man is through the woman, but all things are from God. ¹³ Judge of yourselves; is it becoming that a woman should pray to God unveiled? ¹⁴ Does not nature herself teach you that if a man wears long hair it is a disgrace to him? ¹⁵ but if a woman wears long hair it is her glory; for the hair is given her for a covering. ¹⁶ But if any one is disposed to be contentious, we have no such custom neither have the churches of God. ^{17 (5:3)} But I tell you this, not to praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse. ¹⁸ For first, when you come together in an assembly, I hear that there are divisions among you, and some part of it I believe. ¹⁹ For it is necessary that there should be heresies among you, that the approved may be manifest among you. ²⁰ When you come together therefore, it is not to eat the Lord's supper, ²¹ for each one in eating takes his supper before the rest, and one is hungry and another drunk. ²² Have you not [food] to eat and drink at your houses? or do you despise the church of God, and shame those who have not [houses]? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you? In this I commend you not. ^{23 (5:4)} For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you; that on the night in which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread ²⁴ and giving thanks broke, and said, This is my body, which is for you; this do in remembrance of me. ²⁵ In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant [sealed] with my blood; this do, as often as you drink, in remembrance of me. ²⁶ For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you declare the Lord's death till he comes. ²⁷ So that whoever eats this bread or drinks this cup of the Lord unworthily, is guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. ²⁸ But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup; ²⁹ for he eats and drinks judgment to himself, who eats and drinks not discerning the body. ^{30 (5:5)} For this reason many are weak and sick among you and some sleep. ³¹ For if we judged ourselves we should not be judged; ³² but being judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world. ³³ Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait one for another. ³⁴ If any one is hungry let him eat at home, that you come not together for judgment. The other things I will arrange when I come.

^{22 (1:8)} But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

^{26 (4:2)} For if we sin willingly after having received the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer a sacrifice left for sins,

^{27 (5:4)} You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery; ²⁸ but I tell you, that every one who looks on a woman to desire her inordinately, has already committed adultery with her in his heart. ²⁹ But if your right eye offends you, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell. ³⁰ And if your right hand offends you, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should go into hell.

^{1 (3:1)} CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

⁵ and he said, On this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

² but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband.

¹⁸ Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.

^{1 (3:1)} CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman; ² but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband. ³ Let the husband render to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband. ⁴ The wife has not the right to her body, but the husband; and in like manner the husband has not the right to his body, but the wife. ⁵ Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence. ⁶ But this I say by suggestion, not by command. ⁷ For I wish that all men were even as I am; but each one has his gift from God, and one is of one kind and another of another. ^{8 (3:2)} And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am; ⁹ but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent. ¹⁰ But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband, ¹¹ and also if she is separated let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to the husband, and let not a husband leave his wife. ^{12 (3:3)} But to the rest I speak, not the Lord, If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is pleased to live with him, let him not leave her; ¹³ and if any wife has an unbelieving husband and he is pleased to live with her, let her not leave the husband. ¹⁴ For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the brother; else were your children impure, but now are they holy. ¹⁵ But if the unbelieving companion departs, let him depart; the brother or the sister is not bound in such cases; but God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ For how do you know, wife, that you will not save your husband? or how do you know, husband, that you will not save your wife? ^{17 (3:4)} Unless as the Lord has imparted to each one, as God has called each one, so let him walk; and so I appoint in all the churches. ¹⁸ Is any one called being circumcised, let him not be uncircumcised; is any one called in uncircumcision, let him not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping God's commandments. ²⁰ Let each one remain in the calling in which he was called; ²¹ were you called being a servant, care not for it; but if you can be free, use it rather. ²² For the servant called in the Lord is the Lord's freeman; in like manner the called freeman is Christ's servant. ²³ You are bought with a price; be not servants of men. ²⁴ Let each one continue, brothers, in the calling in which he was called under God. ^{25 (3:5)} And concerning the virgins I have no ordinance of the Lord, but I give an opinion as one that has obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful. ²⁶ I think then that this is good on account of the present necessity, because it is good for man to be so. ²⁷ Are you bound to a wife, seek not a release; are you released from a wife, seek not a wife. ²⁸ But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you. ²⁹ But this I say, brothers, the time is short, so that in future those who have wives should be as those not having them, ³⁰ and those who weep as those not weeping, and those who rejoice as those not rejoicing, and those who buy as not possessing, ³¹ and those who use the world as those not abusing it; for the fashion of this world passes away. ³² But I wish you to be without cares. The unmarried man cares for the things of the Lord, how he shall please the Lord; ³³ but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife. ³⁴ And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband. ³⁵ But I say this for your own profit; not to impose a snare on you, but for [your] honor, and [your] attending on the Lord without distraction. ^{36 (3:6)} But if any one thinks that he behaves improperly to his virgin, if she is past her prime, and it must be so, let him do what he wishes; he does not sin; let them marry. ³⁷ But he that stands firm in mind, not having a necessity, but has power over his will, and has determined in his mind to keep his virgin, does well. ³⁸ He that gives in marriage therefore does well, and he that gives not in marriage does better. ^{39 (3:7)} A woman is bound as long as her husband lives; but if her husband is dead then she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord. ⁴⁰ But she is happier if she continues thus, in my opinion, and I think also I have the Spirit of God.

¹² Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.