CHASTITY
BLESSED are the clean of heart: for they shall see God. (Matt. v. 8.)
Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Ghost, Who Is in you, Whom you have from God; and you are not your own? For you are bought with a great price. Glorify and bear God in your body. (1 Cor. vi. 14, 10,, 20.)
And as I knew that I could not otherwise be continent, except God gave it, and this also was a point of wisdom, to know Whose gift it was: I went to the Lord, and be- sought Him. (Wis. viii. 21.)
O how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory: for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with men. When it is present, they imitate it: and they desire it when it hath withdrawn itself, and it triumpheth crowned for ever, winning the reward of undefiled conflicts. (Wis. iv. 1, 2.)
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, to refrain yourselves from carnal desires which war against the soul. (1 Peter it. 11.)
Evil thoughts are an abomination to the Lord: and pure words most beautiful shall be confirmed by him. (Prov. xv. 26.)
He that loveth cleanness of heart, for the grace of his lips shall have the king for his friend. (Prov. xxii. 11.)
And no price is worthy of a continent soul. (Ecclus. xxvi. 20.)
And I beheld, and lo! a lamb stood upon Mount Sion, and with Him an hundred forty-four thousand, having His name, and the name of His Father, written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the noise of many waters, and as the voice of great thunder; and the voice which I heard, was as the voice of harpers, harping on their harps. And they sang as it were a new canticle, before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the ancients; and no man could say the canticle, but
