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.
For this is the will of God, your holiness, that ye abstain you from fornication.
That each of you know how to wield his vessel in holiness, and honour;
not in passion of lust, as heathen men that know not God.
Meat to the womb, and the womb to meats; and God shall destroy both this and that. And the body not to fornication, but to the Lord, and the Lord to the body.
And each man that hath this hope in him, maketh himself holy, as he is holy.
Arrependimento e restauração
Bem-aventurado aquele cujo pecado é perdoado. Deus restaura os que se arrependem e cria neles um coração limpo e renovado.
Learning to David. [The under-standing of David.] Blessed be they, whose wickedness be forgiven; and whose sins be covered.
Blessed is the man, to whom the Lord areckoned not sin; neither guile is in his spirit.
For I was still, my bones waxed eld; while I cried all day.
For by day and night thine hand was made grievous on me; I am turned in my wretchedness, while the thorn is set in.
I made my sin known to thee; and I hid not my unrightfulness. I said, I shall acknowledge against me mine unrightfulness to the Lord; and thou hast forgiven the wickedness of my sin.
For this thing each holy man shall pray to thee; in covenable time. Nevertheless in the great flood of many waters; they shall not nigh to thee.
Moreover wash thou me from my wickedness; and cleanse thou me from my sin.
For I acknowledge my wickedness; and my sin is ever[more] against me.
I have sinned to thee alone, and I have done evil before thee; that thou be justified in thy words, and overcome when thou art deemed.
Lord, sprinkle thou me with hyssop, and I shall be cleansed; wash thou me, and I shall be made white more than snow.
Give thou joy, and gladness to mine hearing; and bones made meek shall full out make joy.
Turn away thy face from my sins; and do away all my wickednesses.
God, make thou a clean heart in me; and make thou new a rightful spirit in my entrails.
Cast thou me not away from thy face; and take thou not away from me thine holy spirit.
Give thou to me the gladness of thine health; and confirm thou me with the principal spirit.