How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

For our sake, He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

In your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,