Namoro e sexo
Namoro e sexo são temas que a Bíblia trata com clareza e sem tabus. Deus criou o sexo como bênção dentro do casamento e nos chama à pureza fora dele.
Pureza sexual
A vontade de Deus é a santificação. Cada um saiba controlar seu próprio corpo em santidade e honra, não na paixão do desejo.
God wants you, by your behaving in a sexually pure way, to show that you completely belong to him.
God wants you to live pure lives that will show that you completely belong to him. He wants you to avoid doing any sexually immoral acts (OR, avoid being sexually immoral in any way). That is, he wants each one of you to know how to control your own sexual desires [EUP]. He wants you to live pure lives that all people will see as good. You must not lustfully desire to do immoral acts as unbelievers [MTY] do who do not obey God.
Some of you may also say, "Food is just for us to put in the stomach, and the stomach is just for us to put food in. And since God will do away with food and stomachs when he gives us our new bodies, what we do with our bodies sexually does not affect us any more than eating food does." But what you have concluded is wrong, because the Lord does not want us to use our bodies to do sexually immoral things. Instead, the Lord wants us to use our bodies in ways that please him. Also, the Lord wants us to do what is good for our bodies.
So, all those who confidently expect to see Christ as he actually is/what Christ is like when he returns must keep themselves pure in every way, just like Christ, who is pure in every way.
Arrependimento e restauração
Bem-aventurado aquele cujo pecado é perdoado. Deus restaura os que se arrependem e cria neles um coração limpo e renovado.
A psalm written by David, a psalm which will help people to be wise
Those whom God has forgiven for rebelling against him,
whose stains [MET] of sin have been wiped away,
are truly blessed by God!
Those whose record of their sins Yahweh has erased,
those who no longer do deceitful things,
are truly blessed by God!
When I did not confess my sins,
◄my body/I► was very weak and sick,
and I groaned ◄all day long/continually►.
Day and night, Yahweh, you [SYN] punished me severely.
My strength drained away like water that ◄evaporates/dries up► on a hot summer day.
(Think about that!)
Then/Finally I admitted/confessed my sins to you;
I stopped trying to hide them.
(Think about that!)
I said to myself,
"I will confess to Yahweh the wrong things that I have done."
And when I confessed them, you forgave me,
so now I ◄am no longer guilty/will no longer be punished► for my sins.
Therefore, the people who are godly should pray to you
when they ◄realize that they have sinned/have difficulties►.
If they pray to you, difficulties [MET] will not overwhelm them like a great flood.
Make me pure from the wrong things that I have done;
make me clean from the guilt of my sin.
I say that because I know the ways that I have disobeyed you;
I cannot forget them.
You, you only, are the one that I have really sinned against,
and you have seen the evil things that I have done.
When you say that I am guilty, you are right/correct,
and when you judge me, you justly say that I deserve to be punished.
Purify me from the guilt of my sins, and after that happens, I will be clean in my inner being;
cleanse me, and then in my inner being I will be ◄whiter than snow/very clean►.
Allow/Cause me to be joyful [DOU] again;
you have ◄crushed my spirit/completely discouraged me► [MTY];
but now let me rejoice again.
Do not continue to look at the sins [IDM] that I have committed;
erase the record of the evil things that I have done.
O God, cause my inner being to be pure.
Put new thoughts within me and make me faithful again.
Do not send me away from you because of my sin,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.
Cause/Allow me to be happy again because of knowing that you have freed me from the guilt of my sin,
and make me willing to obey you.