Quotes About Faithfulness

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

Brothers, each one should remain in the situation he was in when God called him.

Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.”

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

I am glad that Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus have arrived, because they have supplied what was lacking from you.

But as surely as God is faithful, our message to you is not “Yes” and “No.”

Now finish the work, so that you may complete it just as eagerly as you began, according to your means.

I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

I urged Titus to visit you, and I sent our brother with him. Did Titus exploit you in any way? Did we not walk in the same Spirit and follow in the same footsteps?

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”

Nevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful servant in the Lord, will tell you everything, so that you also may know about me and what I am doing.

But you know Timothyís proven worth, that as a child with his father he has served with me to advance the gospel.

But I thought it necessary to send back to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, who is also your messenger and minister to my needs.

You learned it from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

Tychicus will tell you all the news about me. He is a beloved brother, a faithful minister, and a fellow servant in the Lord.

For I testify about him that he goes to great pains for you and for those at Laodicea and Hierapolis.

Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”