16 Bible Verses about Masturbation
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No temptation has waylaid you that is beyond man's power; trust God, he will never let you be tempted beyond what you can stand, but when temptation comes, he will provide the way out of it, so that you can bear up under it.
But I tell you, any one who even looks with lust at a woman has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.
There are eunuchs who have been eunuchs from their birth, there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Realm of heaven. Let anyone practice it for whom it is practicable."
For in me (that is, in my flesh) no good dwells, I know; the wish is there, but not the power of doing what is right.
Thus there is no doom now for those who are in Christ Jesus;
For those who follow the flesh have their interests in the flesh, and those who follow the Spirit have their interests in the Spirit.
If you live by the flesh, you are on the road to death; but if by the Spirit you put the actions of the body to death, you will live.
let us live decorously as in the open light of day ??no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy. No, put on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ, and never think how to gratify the cravings of the flesh.
Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you ??the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,
I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh. For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh ??the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please.
Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions.
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.
among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.
For all that is in the world, the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the proud glory of life, belongs not to the Father but to the world;