For this is the will of God, {even} your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe {himself} in water, and be unclean until the even.

All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. {expedient: or, profitable}

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. {conceive...: Heb. warm me}

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

And the priest answered David, and said, {There is} no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at {your} wives.

Dearly beloved, I beseech {you} as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;