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

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CHASTITY. → General scriptures concerning Ex 20:14; Job 31:1; Pr 2:10,11,16-22; 5:15-21; 6:24,25; 7:1-5; 31:3; Mt 5:28; Ac 15:20; Ro 13:13; 1Co 6:13-19; 7:1,2,7-9,25,26,36,37; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1Th 4:3,7; Re 14:1-5 → See CONTINENCE → INSTANCES OF
* Joseph Ge 39:7-20
* Boaz Ru 3:6-13
* Paul 1Co 7

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chastity|chasteness. Chastity, or Chasteness, n. purity of body, &c.

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Chas″ti‐ty (?), n. [[F. chasteté, fr. L. castitas, fr. castus. See Chaste.]] 1. 1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew. 2. 2. Moral purity.
So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sicerely so A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Milton. 3. 3. The unmarried life; celibacy. Chaucer.
4. 4. (Literature & Art) Chasteness.