Purity --- Disciplines of a Godly Man (ESV 2011) Flashcards
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
1 Thessalonians 4:4
that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Thessalonians 4:6
that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Job 31:1
“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
Proverbs 6:27
Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?
Mark 9:42
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
Mark 9:43
And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.
Mark 9:44
Some manuscripts add verses 44 and 46 (which are identical with verse 48)
Mark 9:45
And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell.
Mark 9:46
Some manuscripts add verses 44 and 46 (which are identical with verse 48)
Mark 9:47
And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell,
Mark 9:48
‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
Mark 9:49
For everyone will be salted with fire.
Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
Ephesians 5:1
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
Ephesians 5:2
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:3
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
Ephesians 5:4
Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.
Ephesians 5:5
For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:7
Therefore do not become partners with them;
Ephesians 5:8
for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light
Ephesians 5:9
(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),
Ephesians 5:10
and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
2 Timothy 2:22
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
