9 If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.
18 Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you–the Spirit whom you have from God?
20 And you are not your own, for you have been redeemed at infinite cost. Therefore glorify God in your bodies.
4 Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
3 For this is God's will–your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;
4 that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;
5 that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;
3 Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.
4 A married woman is not mistress of her own person: her husband has certain rights. In the same way a married man is not master of his own person: his wife has certain rights.
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take away the members of Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? No, indeed.
16 Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, »The two shall become one.«
17 But he who is in union with the Master is one with Him in spirit.
4 »Have you not read,« He replied, »that He who made them made them' from the beginning male and female,
5 and said, For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall be one'?
6 Thus they are no longer two, but one'! What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.«
3 But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.
13 Living as we do in broad daylight, let us conduct ourselves becomingly, not indulging in revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust and debauchery, nor in quarrelling and jealousy.
22 While boasting of their wisdom they became utter fools,
23 and, instead of worshipping the imperishable God, they worshipped images resembling perishable man or resembling birds or beasts or reptiles.
24 For this reason, in accordance with their own depraved cravings, God gave them up to uncleanness, allowing them to dishonour their bodies among themselves with impurity.
25 For they had bartered the reality of God for what is unreal, and had offered divine honours and religious service to created things, rather than to the Creator–He who is for ever blessed. Amen.
26 This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,
27 in just the same way –neglecting that for which nature intends women– burned with passion towards one another, men practising shameful vice with men, and receiving in their own selves the reward which necessarily followed their misconduct.
28 But I tell you that whoever looks at a woman and cherishes lustful thoughts has already in his heart become guilty with regard to her.