Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible





but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessCastawaysBodyAsceticism, TypesLustMortificationSelf DisciplineConduct, ProperDietsMinisters, Should BeBeating OneselfMaking SlavesslaveryRacetrainingmyself





but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected. Verse ConceptsLicentiousnessCastawaysBodyAsceticism, TypesLustMortificationSelf DisciplineConduct, ProperDietsMinisters, Should BeBeating OneselfMaking SlavesslaveryRacetrainingmyself




Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband. Let the husband render to the wife that which is due, and likewise, also, the wife to the husband. read more.
The wife has not power over her own body, but the husband; likewise, also, the husband has not power over his own body, but the wife. Debar not one another, unless by agreement for a time, that you may have leisure for prayer; and come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God; read more.
That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified:

And after these things, the Lord appointed seventy others, also, and sent them, two and two, before his face, into every city and place to which he himself was about to go. He said, therefore, to them: The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest that he send out laborers into his harvest. Go; behold, I send you as lambs in the midst of wolves. read more.
Carry no purse, nor bag, nor sandals; and salute no one on the road. Whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house. And if a son of peace be there, your peace shall rest on him; but, if not, it shall return upon you. And in that house remain, eating and drinking what they have to give; for the laborer is worthy of his hire; go not from house to house. And whatever city you enter, and they receive you, eat what is set before you; and heal those in it who are sick, and say to them: The kingdom of God has come near to you. But whatever city you enter, and they receive you not, go out into the streets of it, and say: Even the dust of your city, which cleaves to us, we do wipe off against you; yet know this, that the kingdom of God has come near to you. I say to you, It shall be more tolerable, in that day, for Sodom, than for that city. Alas for thee, Chorazin! alas for thee, Bethsaida! for, if the mighty works which have been done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But for Tyre and Sidon it shall be more tolerable in the judgment, than for you. And thou, Capernaum, who hast been exalted to heaven, shalt be brought down to hades. He that hears you, hears me; and he that rejects you, rejects me; and he that rejects me, rejects him that sent me.


For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, read more.
not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God; That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified: for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness. Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.

For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, read more.
not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God; That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified: for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness. Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.




For this reason, God delivered them over to vile passions: for their females exchanged their natural use for that which is against nature: Verse ConceptsdesiresSodomySexual PerversionEvil PassionsGod Handing OverWomen Doing WrongExchanging Good For BadAffectionsexLove And RelationshipsWomen's RolesPassionChange And GrowthSame Sex Marriage















Nor let us be guilty of lewdness, as some of them were guilty, and fell, in one day, twenty-three thou sand. Verse ConceptsChastityLove, In RelationshipsSexual AberrationsSelf IndulgenceSexual Sin, Nature OfTwenty Thousand And UpOne DayAvoid ImmoralitySexual Immorality

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;


For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, read more.
not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God; That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified: for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness. Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit. But with respect to brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

So Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities which were about them, in like manner giving themselves over to lewdness, and following after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. Verse ConceptsDeath, Of UnbelieversBestialityCivilizationHomosexualityEternal JudgementTwo CitiesSexual Immorality Brings PunishmentgayssexSexual ImmoralityBeing Gay

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God; read more.
That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified:


and to you that are afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of our Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those who know not God, and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; these shall suffer punishment in that day, even eternal destruction, far from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power,


After these things, I heard the great voice of a vast multitude in heaven, saying: Alleluia; Salvation and glory and honor and power to our God: for true and righteous are his judgments, for he has judged the great harlot that corrupted the earth with her lewdness; and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.



Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life; he that comes to me shall never hunger; he that believes on me shall never thirst. But I said to you, that you have seen me, and yet you do not believe. All that the Father gives me, will come to me; and him that comes to me, I will by no means cast out. read more.
For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that of all that he gives me, I shall lose nothing, but shall raise it up at the last day. For this is the will of him that sent me, that every one who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man, for the Lord's sake; whether it be to the king, as supreme ruler, or to governors, as those sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers, and for the praise of those who do well. For such is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men;

For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, read more.
not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God; That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified: for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness.

We exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, earnestly care for the weak-minded, be of a long-suffering disposition toward all. See that no one render evil for evil to any, but always pursue that which is good toward one another and toward all. Rejoice always; read more.
pray without ceasing; in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.