1 Timothy 5:14

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

Having regard for honorable things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!

For he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.

Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;

“Now therefore, what do I do here,” says Yahweh, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Those who rule over them mock,” says Yahweh, “and my name is blasphemed continually all day long.

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop than to share a house with a contentious woman.

It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a contentious and fretful woman.

that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn’t eat, to the Lord he doesn’t eat, and gives God thanks.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:

To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. You will bear children in pain. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Every moving thing that lives will be food for you. As I gave you the green herb, I have given everything to you.

She lay at his feet until the morning, then she rose up before one could discern another. For he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”

However, because by this deed you have given great occasion to Yahweh’s enemies to blaspheme, the child also who is born to you will surely die.”

Then Ezra blessed Yahweh, the great God. All the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” with the lifting up of their hands. They bowed their heads, and worshiped Yahweh with their faces to the ground.

So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?

Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we didn’t use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from those who desire an occasion, that in which they boast, they may be found even as we.

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.

that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Let as many as are bondservants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine not be blasphemed.

But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.

Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.

Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.

Demetrius has the testimony of all, and of the truth itself; yes, we also testify, and you know that our testimony is true.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “There, in the tent.”

“You shall not commit adultery.

They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation.

All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

Hear the voice of my petitions, when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your Most Holy Place.

She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife’s quarrels are a continual dripping.

She looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn’t eat the bread of idleness.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

By slothfulness the roof sinks in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

“Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Moreover, in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.

“Don’t judge, so that you won’t be judged.

They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

Abstain from every form of evil.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving.

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

But refuse younger widows, for when they have grown wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

not stealing, but showing all good fidelity, that they may adorn the doctrine of God, our Savior, in all things.

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

accuses her of shameful things, gives her a bad name, and says, “I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn’t find in her the tokens of virginity;”

Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?

Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

He hired so that I would be afraid, do so, and sin, and that they might have material for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

Take away my disgrace that I dread, for your ordinances are good.

Take wives and father sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters. Multiply there, and don’t be diminished.

Let no one be enrolled as a widow under sixty years old, having been the wife of one man,

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.

Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.