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highlighted 1 Kings 11:7-16 ESV
and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods. But he did not keep what the Lord commanded.Therefore the Lord said to Solomon, "Since this has been your practice and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes that I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you and will give it to your servant.Yet for the sake of David your father I will not do it in your days, but I will tear it out of the hand of your son.However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son, for the sake of David my servant and for the sake of Jerusalem that I have chosen."And the Lord raised up an adversary against Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. He was of the royal house in Edom.For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom(for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom).Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.And the Lord was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the Lord, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice
Jan 19
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted 1 Kings 11:1-6 ESV
Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, "You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods." Solomon clung to these in love.He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done.
Jan 19
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted 1 Corinthians 7:2-5 ESV
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Genesis 2:18-25 ESV
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted 1 Corinthians 7:1 ESV
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV
You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter or of your daughter's daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife's daughter, brought up in your father's family, since she is your sister.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's sister; she is your father's relative.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, for she is your mother's relative.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son's wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife; it is your brother's nakedness.You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity.And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive."You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor's wife and so make yourself unclean with her.You shall not give any of your children to offer them to Molech, and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion."Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.But you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the native or the stranger who sojourns among you(for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean),lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people."Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God.So keep my charge never to practice any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God." You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes.You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God.You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord."None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father's wife; it is your father's nakedness.You shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father's daughter or your mother's daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Genesis 38:1-30 ESV
And what he did was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death also.Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, till Shelah my son grows up"—for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father's house.In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.And when Tamar was told, "Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,"she took off her widow's garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.He turned to her at the roadside and said, "Come, let me come in to you," for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"He answered, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." And she said, "If you give me a pledge, until you send it—"He said, "What pledge shall I give you?" She replied, "Your signet and your cord and your staff that is in your hand." So he gave them to her and went in to her, and she conceived by him.Then she arose and went away, and taking off her veil she put on the garments of her widowhood. It happened at that time that Judah went down from his brothers and turned aside to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite to take back the pledge from the woman's hand, he did not find her.And he asked the men of the place, "Where is the cult prostitute who was at Enaim at the roadside?" And they said, "No cult prostitute has been here."So he returned to Judah and said, "I have not found her. Also, the men of the place said, 'No cult prostitute has been here.'"And Judah replied, "Let her keep the things as her own, or we shall be laughed at. You see, I sent this young goat, and you did not find her."About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned."As she was being brought out, she sent word to her father-in-law, "By the man to whom these belong, I am pregnant." And she said, "Please identify whose these are, the signet and the cord and the staff."Then Judah identified them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again.When the time of her labor came, there were twins in her womb.And when she was in labor, one put out a hand, and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This one came out first."But as he drew back his hand, behold, his brother came out. And she said, "What a breach you have made for yourself!" Therefore his name was called Perez.There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her,Afterward his brother came out with the scarlet thread on his hand, and his name was called Zerah. and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she bore him.And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord put him to death.Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother."But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Hebrews 13:4 ESV
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Song of Solomon 2:16 ESV
My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Song of Solomon 2:3 ESV
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Song of Solomon 4:16 ESV
Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow. Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Romans 1:21-28 ESV
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.Claiming to be wise, they became fools,and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Romans 3:3 ESV
What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
Jan 15
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted 1 Timothy 4:1-16 ESV
For to this end we toil and strive, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is the Savior of all people, especially of those who believe.Command and teach these things.Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress.Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.Have nothing to do with irreverent, silly myths. Rather train yourself for godliness;for while bodily training is of some value, godliness is of value in every way, as it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance.
Jan 12
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Psalms 98:9 ESV
before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.
Jan 12
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Psalms 98:1 ESV
A Psalm. Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.
Jan 12
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Psalms 98:2-8 ESV
The Lord has made known his salvation; he has revealed his righteousness in the sight of the nations. He has remembered his steadfast love and faithfulness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises! Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody! With trumpets and the sound of the horn make a joyful noise before the King, the Lord! Let the sea roar, and all that fills it; the world and those who dwell in it! Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills sing for joy together
Jan 12
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Joshua 1:8 ESV
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Jan 8
Sandra Dalton Gay
highlighted Genesis 11:7-9 ESV
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech."So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
Jan 8