Chastity

Commanded — Ex 20:14; Pr 31:3; Ac 15:20; Ro 13:13; Col 3:5; 1Th 4:3.

Required in look — Job 31:1; Mt 5:28.

Required in heart — Pr 6:25.

Required in speech — Eph 5:3.

Keep the body in — 1Co 6:13,15-18.

Preserved by wisdom — Pr 2:10,11,16; 7:1-5.

Saints are kept in — Ec 7:26.

Advantages of — 1Pe 3:1,2.

Shun those devoid of — 1Co 5:11; 1Pe 4:3.

The wicked are devoid of — Ro 1:29; Eph 4:19; 2Pe 2:14; Jude 1:8.

Temptation to deviate from, dangerous — 2Sa 11:2-4.

Consequences of associating with those devoid of — Pr 7:25-27; 22:14.

Want of, excludes from heaven — Ga 5:19-21.

Drunkenness destructive to — Pr 23:31-33.

Breach of, punished — 1Co 3:16,17; Eph 5:5,6; Heb 13:4; Re 22:15.

Motives for — 1Co 6:19; 1Th 4:7.

Exemplified

Abimelech. — Ge 20:4,5; 26:10,11.

Joseph. — Ge 39:7-10.

Ruth. — Ru 3:10,11.

Boaz. — Ru 3:13.