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To the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do. But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than
to burn with passion.
–1 Corinthians 7:8-9 (NIV)–

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David, Bathsheba, and Nathan // Samson, Delilah, and the Philistines // Joseph, Potiphar’s Wife, and Potiphar // Amnon, Tamar, and Absalom // Judah and Tamar // The men of Sodom // The men of Gibeah and the Levite’s concubine // The Benjamites and the women of Shiloh // Reuben and Bilhah // Lot and his daughters // The Israelites and the Moabite women // Zimri and Cozbi // Herod Antipas and Herodias // The man and his father’s wife at Corinth // The unnamed woman at the well // The woman caught in adultery // The harlot Rahab // Hosea and Gomer // The adulterous woman in Proverbs 7 // The false prophet Balaam and Israel // The woman Jezebel in Revelation 2 // The prodigal son — narratives that illustrate the sin of fornication. No Greek word translation rhetoric needed.

KING JAMES VERSION

(KJV)

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Being now justified by His blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
–Romans 5:9–

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
–Romans 6:1-2–

I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
–Romans 7:23-25–

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
–Romans 8:1-8–

Because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
–Romans 11:20-22–

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.
–Romans 12:1-3–

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ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION

(ESV)

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We have now been justified by His blood,
much more shall we be saved by Him from the wrath of God.
–Romans 5:9–

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
–Romans 6:1-2–

I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
–Romans 7:23-25–

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
–Romans 8:1-8–

They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you. Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
–Romans 11:20-22–

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
–Romans 12:1-3–

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The most emphatic denominations about this order of salvation, or the use of the Scripture chain above to present the whole dynamic of Gospel justification, sanctification, and conditional security–are the Church of God (Cleveland), the Church of the Nazarene, the Wesleyan Church, the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, the Salvation Army, and the Free Methodist Church.

J. B., The Gospel of Jesus Christ (Kingsley Press, 2015).

Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Francis Asbury Press, 2000).

Dr. French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, vol. 2 (Pathway Press, 1993).

P. C. Nelson, Bible Doctrines (Gospel Publishing House, 2009).

Myer Pearlman, Knowing the Doctrines of the Bible (Gospel Publishing House, 1981).

So you, son of man, I have made a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, you shall give them warning from Me. If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand. But if you warn the wicked to turn from his way, and he does not turn from his way, that person shall die in his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.
–Ezekiel 33:7-9 (KJV)–

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David Cloud, and his ministry Way of Life Literature, is the top Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) voice today that still preaches Biblical separation like Dr. John R. Rice with Sword of the Lord Publications did in the 1970s. I agree with a lot of what he says, but not with all of his opinions and conclusions. He’s against all rock music, he’s totally anti-charismatic, he believes in eternal security, and he’s totally anti-Catholic. But he says a whole lot of other things that are very, very agreeable from a Wesleyan-holiness and old school Pentecostal point of view. Please check him out.

Nebuchadnezzar was driven out of human society and ate grass like an ox. The dew fell on his body, and his hair grew as long as eagle feathers and his nails as long as bird claws.
–Daniel 4:33 (GNT)–

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INSANE.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise,
than for a man to hear the song of fools.
–Ecclesiastes 7:5 (KJV)–

It has recently come to my attention that Max Cavalera joined up with his brother to form a group called Cavalera. They re-recorded and are now publicly playing their old albums Morbid Visions and Bestial Devastation. These albums are completely anti-Christian and Satanic in their lyrical content. Whatever quasi-Catholic spiritual progress Max made during his Soulfly years, it seems that he has set that aside, and had some type of a relapse into anti-Christian music. I can no longer endorse Max Cavalera’s material from here on out; and I will cease from playing even his clean, Biblically themed, and pro-Christian songs on my podcast. Please keep him in your prayers. I say no to Cavalera, no to Soulfly, and no to Sepultura. NO!

What is the next part of his testimony? You will find it in the third chapter: God is only to be approached in a spiritual way. To come to God, “ye must be born again.” That which is born of flesh is flesh, and cannot commune with God, who is a spirit. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit, and can commune with the holy God, and understand spiritual things. My hearers, there is no coming to God by a priest of human consecration, no coming by outward ritual, form, and ceremony: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” You must have a spiritual nature, that the Spirit of God may commune with you. Only by a spiritual nature can you have intercourse with the great Invisible. Your spirit can be in fellowship with God, the mighty Spirit; but what can you do till a spirit is created in you? This was our Lord’s testimony to Nathanael; and I suppose that, by some means, John the Baptist had heard of it; but whether he had or had not does not matter to my purpose at this time; it is certainly a part of the testimony of Jesus.
–Charles Spurgeon, “Christ’s Testimony Received”–

You accepted the real Saviour for your real sin, and you believed in the real death of Christ for you: are you going to run back? Will you doubt your Lord after this? God grant you may not; but, on the contrary, may you go on confirming the testimony of Jesus, and setting it to your seal again and again that God is true! Give glory to God by believing that what he has promised he is able also to perform. Never stagger at the promise through unbelief. All the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ Jesus, to the glory of God by us; wherefore, we set to our seal that God is true. I have done, when I have said just this. Avoid, dear hearers, anxiously, the double sin of unbelief. If you do not believe Jesus, you do not believe God. If you reject his Son, you reject himself. If you give the lie to the teaching of Christ, you give the lie to God. Flee from this deadly sin.
–Charles Spurgeon, “Christ’s Testimony Received”–