Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.

If any one among you seems to be religious, and bridles not his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity. So is the tongue placed among our members, defiling the whole body, setting on fire the course of life, and being set on fire by hell.

Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom.

Whence come wars and strifes among you? Come they not hence, even of your passions, which war in your members?

Is any one among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any one cheerful? let him sing praise.

Is any one among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil, in the name of the Lord.

Brethren, if any among you should err from the truth, and one should turn him back,

The elders that are among you I exhort, who am a fellow-elder, and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, and a sharer in the glory that is to be revealed.

Act as shepherds to the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight, not by compulsion, but willingly; not for the sake of sordid gain, but from readiness of mind:

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you; and these will stealthily introduce ruinous sects, and deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction:

for that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds:

I wrote to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.

I know your works, and where you dwell, even where the throne of Satan is: and yet you hold fast my name, and have not denied my faith, even in those days in which Antipas was my faithful witness, who was slain among you, where Satan dwells.

Therefore, they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them.

These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are they that follow the Lamb wherever he goes: these were redeemed from among men, the first-fruits to God and to the Lamb.