Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God.

and abstaining from whatever kind is evil.

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another woman, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice, that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably, not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are. Still, if they cannot restrain themselves, let them marry. Better marry than be aflame with passion!

A woman is bound to her husband during his lifetime; but if he dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases ??only, it must be a Christian.

Make no mistake ??God is not to be mocked ??a man will reap just what he sows; he who sows for his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, and he who sows for the Spirit will reap life eternal from the Spirit.