¹⁸ `And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

¹⁵ and he saith unto the people, `Be ye prepared for the third day, come not nigh unto a woman.'

⁴ honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

²² and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

³ for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

⁴ that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

⁵ not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

³ and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

⁴ also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;

⁵ for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

⁶ Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

⁷ become not, then, partakers with them,

⁸ for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,

⁹ for the fruit of the Spirit `is' in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth,

¹⁰ proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

¹¹ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict,

¹⁷ This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

¹⁸ being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

¹⁹ who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;

¹⁸ flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

¹² All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful to me, but I -- I will not be under authority by any;

⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me.

⁴ And the priest answereth David, and saith, `There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if the youths have been kept only from women.'

⁵ And David answereth the priest, and saith to him, `Surely, if women have been restrained from us as heretofore in my going out, then the vessels of the young men are holy, and it `is' a common way: and also, surely to-day it is sanctified in the vessel.'

⁵ and any one who cometh against his bed doth wash his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

¹¹ Beloved, I call upon `you', as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,