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BASICS
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training
in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. (2
Timothy 3,16-17)
For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only begotten Son, that whosoever
believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son
into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him. (John 3:16-17)
But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all
things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. (John 14:26)
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ
Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the
Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and
envying each other. (Galatians 5:22-26)
PRAYER
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His
will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us--whatever we ask--we know that we have
what we asked of Him. (John 5:14-15)
Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be
done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My
name, there am I in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:19-20)
IMMORALITY
Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable. Do not have sexual
relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an
animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion. Do not defile yourselves in
any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you
became defiled. Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land
vomited out its inhabitants. (Leviticus 18:22-25)
Then the Lord rained down brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah-from the Lord out of the
heavens. Thus he overthrew those cities and the entire plain, including all those living in
the cities-and also the vegetation in the land. (Genesis 19:24-25)
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor
homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers
will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. By
his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. Do you not know that
your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite
them with a prostitute? Never! Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute
is one with her in body? For it is said: "The two will become one flesh." But he who unites
himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins
a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do
you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have
received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God
with your body. (1 Corinthians 6:13-19)
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,
dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did
before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:1921)
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of
impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be
obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person--such a man is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. (Ephesians 5:3-5)
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JUDGMENT
The fools say in their heart: "There is no God!" They are corrupt, and their ways are vile;
there is none among them that do right. (Psalm 53:1)
If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of
Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels. (Mark
8:38)
But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account
thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words
thou shalt be condemned. (Matthew 12:36)
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother´s eye and pay no attention to the
plank in your own eye? (Luke 6:41)
But Jesus called the children to Him and said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do
not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth,
anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.
(Luke 18:16-17)
WISDOM
Dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful trial you are suffering, as though
something strange were happening to you. But rejoice that you participate in the sufferings
of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted
because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests on
you. (1 Peter 4:12-14)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened
to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door
will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if
he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to
give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts
to those who ask Him! (Matthew 7:7-11)
You have heard that it was said: "Love your neighbor and hate your enemy." (3 Deuteronomy
19:18) But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute [and slander] you,
that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the
good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. If you love those who love you,
what reward will you get? Are not even the tax collectors doing that? And if you greet only
your brothers, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? Therefore,
be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:43-48)
Do not gather for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where
thieves break in and steal. But gather for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and
rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure
is, there your heart will be also. (Matthew 6:19-21)
Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built
his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone
who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his
house on the sand. (Matthew 7:24-26)
ESSENCE
And Jesus said: Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens
the door, I will come in. Together we will feast. (Revelation 3:20)
I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the
spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be
surprised at My saying, you must be born again [from above]. (John 3:5-7)
A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another, as I love you, you shall love
one another. (John 13:34)
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John
14:6)
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And be sure of this: I am
with you always, even unto the end of the world. (Matthew 28:18-20)