Bible verses about "masturbation" | Twentieth_Century

¹⁴ No! Arm yourselves with the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, and spend no thought on your earthly nature, to satisfy its cravings.

¹³ Do not offer any part of your bodies to Sin, in the cause of unrighteousness, but once for all offer yourselves to God (as those who, though once dead, now have Life), and devote every part of your bodies to the cause of righteousness.

²⁷ No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.

³ A husband should give his wife her due, and a wife her husband. ⁴ It is not the wife, but the husband, who exercises power over her body; and so, too, it is not the husband, but the wife, who exercises power over his body. ⁵ Do not deprive each other of what is due-unless it is only for a time and by mutual consent, so that your minds may be free for prayer till you again live as man and wife-lest Satan should take advantage of your want of self-control and tempt you.

¹³ Let no one say, when he is tempted, "It is God who is tempting me!" For God, who cannot be tempted to do wrong, does not himself tempt any one. ¹⁴ A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them.

⁵ Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

²⁸ I, however, say to you that any one who looks at a woman with an impure intention has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁹ The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency, ²⁰ Idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, ²¹ Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

¹⁸ Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.

¹⁴ A man is in every case tempted by his own passions--allured and enticed by them. ¹⁵ Then Passion conceives and gives birth to Sin, and Sin, on reaching maturity, brings forth Death.

¹¹ Dear friends, I urge you, as pilgrims and strangers upon earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war upon the soul.

³ For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality; ⁴ Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably, ⁵ And not for the mere gratification of his passions, like the Gentiles who know nothing of God;

¹³ No temptation has come upon you that is not common to all mankind. God will not fail you, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength; but, when he sends the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, so that you may have strength to endure.