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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 5
Those who embrace immoral women go down to hell—Rejoice with the wife of thy
youth.
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While spoken in relationship to the confines of marriage relations, it is true of
all such intimate sexual relationships outside those sexual relations between a 'husband
and wife in lawful marriage'.
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" ... abominable above all sins
save it be the
sedding
of innocent blood ... "
~ Alma 39:5 ~
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1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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3 ¶ For the alips of a
bstrange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is
smoother than oil:
4 But her aend is bbitter as
wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5 Her feet go down to adeath; her steps take
hold on bhell.
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3a
TG
Lust
b
Prov. 2:16;
Alma 39:3
4a
Prov. 7:27;
Jacob 2:35 (27-35)
b
Eccl. 7:26
5a
TG
Sexual Immorality
b
TG
Damnation
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6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8 aRemove thy way far from her, and come not
nigh the door of her house:
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8a
Alma 39:9-11
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9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy awealth;
and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
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10a
OR strength
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12 And say, How have I hated ainstruction,
and my heart despised reproof;
13 And have not aobeyed the voice of my
bteachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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12a
D&C 101:5 (1-5)
13a
TG
Disobedience
b
TG
Teachers
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15 ¶ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
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18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the
awife of thy youth.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let
her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her
alove.
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18a
TG
Family, Love within;
TG
Marriage, Husbands
19a
D&C 42:22
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20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the aways of man are before
the beyes of the LORD, and he cpondereth all his
goings.
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21a
Ps. 119:168
b
Heb. 4:13
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2 Ne. 9:20;
D&C 38:2 (1-2)
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22 ¶ His own ainiquities shall take the
wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the bcords of his
sinsa.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
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22a he shall be holden with the cords of his
sins It is folly to think that one can sin now and rely on Christ to pay
for his sins later and not have to face any penalty. 'DO NOT procrastinate the day of
your repentance', is what we are told and for good reason. When we 'harden our heart'
unto sin, then the spirit does begin its course of withdrawal from us and we begin
to received the lesser portions of the word. This continues until we find ourselves in
surrounding darkness and we not only do not come to know and understand the mysteries
of God unto salvation, we begin to ripen in our iniquity unto destruction. We loose our
sensitivity to recognize good and evil to the point that we justify our sins and like
the world prophesied by Isaiah we become so corrupted in vision that we see good as
evil and evil as good. That is when we are bound by the 'chains of hell' and we have
become so entrenched in the evil ways that any repentance from them is extremely
difficult and we are locked in the pains of hell. What is really scary about this is
that you see it every day in people of the world, even some you once knew who were
even close unto God who have now fallen away into darkness to the point that they are
literally shouting their sins from the housetops themselves and touting them as not
evil and they even go so far as to fight against God and claim that God is not.
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22a
Hosea 7:2
b
Alma 12:11 (10-11);
Alma 36:18;
Moses 7:26
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