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Passages on this topic · 52

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

• Genesis 39:8

  But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

• Genesis 39:9

  No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

• Genesis 39:10

  As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

• Genesis 39:11

  About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

• Genesis 39:12

  She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

• Ruth 3:6

  She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

• Ruth 3:7

  When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

• Ruth 3:8

  At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

• Ruth 3:9

  He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”

• Ruth 3:10

  He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

• Ruth 3:11

  Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

• Ruth 3:12

  Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

• Ruth 3:13

  Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

• 2 Samuel 11:8

  David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

• 2 Samuel 11:9

  But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.

• 2 Samuel 11:10

  When they had told David, saying, “Uriah didn’t go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Haven’t you come from a journey? Why didn’t you go down to your house?”

• 2 Samuel 11:11

  Uriah said to David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah, are staying in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open field. Shall I then go into my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing!”

• 2 Samuel 11:12

  David said to Uriah, “Stay here today also, and tomorrow I will let you depart.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day, and the next day.

• 2 Samuel 11:13

  When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk. At evening, he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn’t go down to his house.

• Job 31:1

  “I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

• Matthew 1:24

  Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself;

• Matthew 1:25

  and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.

• Matthew 5:27

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’

• Matthew 5:28

  but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

• Matthew 19:12

  For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven’s sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.”

• Romans 13:13

  Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

• 1 Corinthians 7:1

  Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

• 1 Corinthians 7:2

  But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:3

  Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.

• 1 Corinthians 7:4

  The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:5

  Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

• 1 Corinthians 7:6

  But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

• 1 Corinthians 7:7

  Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

• 1 Corinthians 7:8

  But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

• 1 Corinthians 7:9

  But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

• 1 Corinthians 7:25

  Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.

• 1 Corinthians 7:26

  I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

• 1 Corinthians 7:27

  Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

• 1 Corinthians 7:28

  But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

• 1 Corinthians 7:29

  But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

• 1 Corinthians 7:36

  But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.

• 1 Corinthians 7:37

  But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.

• 1 Corinthians 7:38

  So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn’t give her in marriage does better.

• 1 Corinthians 9:27

  but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

• Colossians 3:5

  Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

• 1 Timothy 4:12

  Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

• 1 Timothy 5:1

  Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

• 1 Timothy 5:2

  the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

• Revelation 14:1

  I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

• Revelation 14:4

  These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

• Revelation 14:5

  In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.