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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God said, &#8220;It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="GEN.2.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="GEN.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Now the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="GEN.2.20"><span class="content">But for Adam</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the man</span></span></span><span class="content"> no suitable helper was found. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="GEN.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">So the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man&#8217;s ribs</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">took part of the man&#8217;s side</span></span></span><span class="content"> and then closed up the place with flesh. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.2.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> God made a woman from the rib</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">2:22 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">part</span></span></span><span class="content"> he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="GEN.2.22"></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">The man said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">&#8220;This is now bone of my bones</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">and flesh of my flesh;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">she shall be called &#8216;woman,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"><span class="content">for she was taken out of man.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="GEN.2.23"></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.2.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="GEN.2.24"></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="GEN.2.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1CO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Now for the matters you wrote about: &#8220;It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1CO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1CO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1CO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1CO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Drink water from your own cistern,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"><span class="content">running water from your own well.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.5.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Should your springs overflow in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"><span class="content">your streams of water in the public squares?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.5.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Let them be yours alone,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"><span class="content">never to be shared with strangers.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.5.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">May your fountain be blessed,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"><span class="content">and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.5.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">A loving doe, a graceful deer&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may her breasts satisfy you always,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"><span class="content">may you ever be intoxicated with her love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.5.19"></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man&#8217;s wife?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"><span class="content">Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.5.20"></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1TH.4.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">It is God&#8217;s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1TH.4.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">that each of you should learn to control your own body</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">learn to live with your own wife</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">learn to acquire a wife</span></span></span><span class="content"> in a way that is holy and honorable, </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1TH.4.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God; </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1TH.4.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">4:6 </span><span class="ft">The Greek word for </span><span class="fq">brother or sister </span><span class="ft">(<span class="tl">adelphos</span>) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God&#8217;s family.</span></span></span><span class="content"> The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="2CO.5.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="2CO.5.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:17 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Christ, that person is a new creation.</span></span></span><span class="content"> The old has gone, the new is here! </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="2CO.5.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="2CO.5.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people&#8217;s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="2CO.5.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">We are therefore Christ&#8217;s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ&#8217;s behalf: Be reconciled to God. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="2CO.5.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">God made him who had no sin to be sin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">5:21 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be a sin offering</span></span></span><span class="content"> for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.</span></span></div>
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