Purity Principles Bible Study
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A Companion Study for the Book: The Purity Principle by Randy Alcorn
A Companion Study for the Book: The Purity Principle by Randy Alcorn
Methods are many, Principles are few, Methods always change, Principles never do.
Methods are many, Principles are few, Methods always change, Principles never do.
Becoming a Man of Purity
Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Becoming a Man of Purity
Becoming a Man of Purity
Each week read one chapter from "The Purity Principle" by Randy Alcorn and study the corresponding verses. These verses are referred to in the chapter material. Use the following pages to record your study of the verses.
Each week read one chapter from "The Purity Principle" by Randy Alcorn and study the corresponding verses. These verses are referred to in the chapter material. Use the following pages to record your study of the verses.
Week 1: Read Chapter 1 • Forfeiting What Could Have Been Memorize & Study • Jonah 2:8 Week 2: Read Chapter 2 • Enlightened Self-Interest Memorize & Study • Proverbs 6:27-29 Week 3: Read Chapter 3 • What's the Big Deal About Sex? Memorize & Study • I Corinthians 6:18-20 Week 4: Read Chapter 4 • Targeted & Vulnerable Memorize & Study • I Peter 5:8
Week 1: Read Chapter 1 • Forfeiting What Could Have Been Memorize & Study • Jonah 2:8 Week 2: Read Chapter 2 • Enlightened Self-Interest Memorize & Study • Proverbs 6:27-29 Week 3: Read Chapter 3 • What's the Big Deal About Sex? Memorize & Study • I Corinthians 6:18-20 Week 4: Read Chapter 4 • Targeted & Vulnerable Memorize & Study • I Peter 5:8
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Week 5: Read Chapter 5 • The Battle is in Your Mind Memorize & Study • Job 31:1 Week 6: Read Chapter 6 • Wise Strategies Memorize & Study • Proverbs 4:14,15 Week 7: Read Chapter 7 • Getting Radical Memorize & Study • Ephesians 5:3,4 Week 8: Read Chapter 8 • Guidelines for Singles Memorize & Study • I Timothy 5:1,2 Week 9: Read Chapter 9 • Guidelines for Couples/Parents Memorize & Study • Proverbs 5:15 Week 10: Read Chapter 10 • Confession /Accountability/ Counting the Cost/Memorize & Study • Proverbs 28:13 Week 11: Read Conclusion • A Battle We Can Win Memorize & Study • Jeremiah 17:10 Week 12: Memorize & Study • Proverbs 4:23 Week 13: Review • State each lesson as a principle. 2
Week 5: Read Chapter 5 • The Battle is in Your Mind Memorize & Study • Job 31:1 Week 6: Read Chapter 6 • Wise Strategies Memorize & Study • Proverbs 4:14,15 Week 7: Read Chapter 7 • Getting Radical Memorize & Study • Ephesians 5:3,4 Week 8: Read Chapter 8 • Guidelines for Singles Memorize & Study • I Timothy 5:1,2 Week 9: Read Chapter 9 • Guidelines for Couples/Parents Memorize & Study • Proverbs 5:15 Week 10: Read Chapter 10 • Confession /Accountability/ Counting the Cost/Memorize & Study • Proverbs 28:13 Week 11: Read Conclusion • A Battle We Can Win Memorize & Study • Jeremiah 17:10 Week 12: Memorize & Study • Proverbs 4:23 Week 13: Review • State each lesson as a principle. 2
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Passage: Jonah 2:8 NIV "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs."
Passage: Jonah 2:8 NIV "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs."
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: Proverbs 6:27-29 NIV Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished."
Passage: Proverbs 6:27-29 NIV Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: I Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
Passage: I Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
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Why?
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: I Peter 5:8 NIV Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Passage: I Peter 5:8 NIV Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: Job 31:1 NIV "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl."
Passage: Job 31:1 NIV "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl."
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: Proverbs 4:14,15 NIV Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.
Passage: Proverbs 4:14,15 NIV Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: Ephesians 5:3,4 NIV But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
Passage: Ephesians 5:3,4 NIV But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: I Timothy 5:1,2 NIV Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Passage: I Timothy 5:1,2 NIV Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: Proverbs 5:15 NIV Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
Passage: Proverbs 5:15 NIV Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: Proverbs 28:13 NIV He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Passage: Proverbs 28:13 NIV He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: Jeremiah 17:10 NIV "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
Passage: Jeremiah 17:10 NIV "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: Proverbs 4:23 NIV Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Passage: Proverbs 4:23 NIV Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
Chapter 1: Jonah 2:8
Chapter 1: Jonah 2:8
Chapter 2: Proverbs 6:27-29
Chapter 2: Proverbs 6:27-29
Chapter 3: I Corinthians 6:18-20
Chapter 3: I Corinthians 6:18-20
Chapter 4: I Peter 5:8
Chapter 4: I Peter 5:8
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purity principles
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
Chapter 5: Job 31:1
Chapter 5: Job 31:1
Chapter 6: Proverbs 4:14,15
Chapter 6: Proverbs 4:14,15
Chapter 7: Ephesians 5:3,4
Chapter 7: Ephesians 5:3,4
Chapter 8: I Timothy 5:1,2
Chapter 8: I Timothy 5:1,2
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
Chapter 9: Proverbs 5:15
Chapter 9: Proverbs 5:15
Chapter 10: Proverbs 28:13
Chapter 10: Proverbs 28:13
Chapter 11: Jeremiah 17:10
Chapter 11: Jeremiah 17:10
Chapter 12: Proverbs 4:23
Chapter 12: Proverbs 4:23
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Accountability: What questions do you need a partner to ask you each week so that you overcome temptation and establish patterns of victory in the area of purity?
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Accountability: What questions do you need a partner to ask you each week so that you overcome temptation and establish patterns of victory in the area of purity?
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I Peter 5:8 NIV Jonah 2:8 NIV "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs."
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Jonah 2:8 NIV 1- Purity Principles
I Peter 5:8 NIV 4- Purity Principles
Proverbs 6:27-29 NIV Job 31:1 NIV Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished." Proverbs 6:27-29 NIV 2- Purity Principles I Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. 3- Purity Principles I Cor 6:18-20 NIV
"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl." Job 31:1 NIV 5- Purity Principles Proverbs 4:14,15 NIV Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way. Proverbs 4:14,15 NIV 6- Purity Principles
Ephesians 5:3,4 NIV But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. Ephesians 5:3,4 NIV 7- Purity Principles
Proverbs 28:13 NIV He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. Proverbs 28:13 NIV 10- Purity Principles
I Timothy 5:1,2 NIV Jeremiah 17:10 NIV Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
"I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
I Timothy 5:1,2 NIV 8- Purity Principles
Jeremiah 17:10 NIV 11- Purity Principles
Proverbs 5:15 NIV Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
Proverbs 4:23 NIV Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs 5:15 NIV 9- Purity Principles
Proverbs 4:23 NIV 12- Purity Principles
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A Companion Study for the Book: The Purity Principle by Randy Alcorn
A Companion Study for the Book: The Purity Principle by Randy Alcorn
Methods are many, Principles are few, Methods always change, Principles never do.
Methods are many, Principles are few, Methods always change, Principles never do.
Becoming a Man of Purity
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
Becoming a Man of Purity
Each week read one chapter from "The Purity Principle" by Randy Alcorn and study the corresponding verses. These verses are referred to in the chapter material. Use the following pages to record your study of the verses.
Each week read one chapter from "The Purity Principle" by Randy Alcorn and study the corresponding verses. These verses are referred to in the chapter material. Use the following pages to record your study of the verses.
Week 1: Read Chapter 1 • Forfeiting What Could Have Been Memorize & Study • Jonah 2:8 Week 2: Read Chapter 2 • Enlightened Self-Interest Memorize & Study • Proverbs 6:27-29 Week 3: Read Chapter 3 • What's the Big Deal About Sex? Memorize & Study • I Corinthians 6:18-20 Week 4: Read Chapter 4 • Targeted & Vulnerable Memorize & Study • I Peter 5:8
Week 1: Read Chapter 1 • Forfeiting What Could Have Been Memorize & Study • Jonah 2:8 Week 2: Read Chapter 2 • Enlightened Self-Interest Memorize & Study • Proverbs 6:27-29 Week 3: Read Chapter 3 • What's the Big Deal About Sex? Memorize & Study • I Corinthians 6:18-20 Week 4: Read Chapter 4 • Targeted & Vulnerable Memorize & Study • I Peter 5:8
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Week 5: Read Chapter 5 • The Battle is in Your Mind Memorize & Study • Job 31:1 Week 6: Read Chapter 6 • Wise Strategies Memorize & Study • Proverbs 4:14,15 Week 7: Read Chapter 7 • Getting Radical Memorize & Study • Ephesians 5:3,4 Week 8: Read Chapter 8 • Guidelines for Singles Memorize & Study • I Timothy 5:1,2 Week 9: Read Chapter 9 • Guidelines for Couples/Parents Memorize & Study • Proverbs 5:15 Week 10: Read Chapter 10 • Confession /Accountability/ Counting the Cost/Memorize & Study • Proverbs 28:13 Week 11: Read Conclusion • A Battle We Can Win Memorize & Study • Jeremiah 17:10 Week 12: Memorize & Study • Proverbs 4:23 Week 13: Review • State each lesson as a principle. 2
Week 5: Read Chapter 5 • The Battle is in Your Mind Memorize & Study • Job 31:1 Week 6: Read Chapter 6 • Wise Strategies Memorize & Study • Proverbs 4:14,15 Week 7: Read Chapter 7 • Getting Radical Memorize & Study • Ephesians 5:3,4 Week 8: Read Chapter 8 • Guidelines for Singles Memorize & Study • I Timothy 5:1,2 Week 9: Read Chapter 9 • Guidelines for Couples/Parents Memorize & Study • Proverbs 5:15 Week 10: Read Chapter 10 • Confession /Accountability/ Counting the Cost/Memorize & Study • Proverbs 28:13 Week 11: Read Conclusion • A Battle We Can Win Memorize & Study • Jeremiah 17:10 Week 12: Memorize & Study • Proverbs 4:23 Week 13: Review • State each lesson as a principle. 2
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Passage: Jonah 2:8 NIV "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs."
Passage: Jonah 2:8 NIV "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs."
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: Proverbs 6:27-29 NIV Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished."
Passage: Proverbs 6:27-29 NIV Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: I Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
Passage: I Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
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Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: I Peter 5:8 NIV Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Passage: I Peter 5:8 NIV Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: Job 31:1 NIV "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl."
Passage: Job 31:1 NIV "I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl."
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Passage: Proverbs 4:14,15 NIV Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.
Passage: Proverbs 4:14,15 NIV Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: Ephesians 5:3,4 NIV But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
Passage: Ephesians 5:3,4 NIV But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: I Timothy 5:1,2 NIV Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Passage: I Timothy 5:1,2 NIV Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: Proverbs 5:15 NIV Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
Passage: Proverbs 5:15 NIV Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: Proverbs 28:13 NIV He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Passage: Proverbs 28:13 NIV He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: Jeremiah 17:10 NIV "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
Passage: Jeremiah 17:10 NIV "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Becoming a Man of Purity
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Passage: Proverbs 4:23 NIV Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Passage: Proverbs 4:23 NIV Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Principle: What does the passage say? Read the surrounding context. Make observations about the content of the passage.
Who?
Who?
What?
What?
Where?
Where?
When?
When?
How?
How?
Why?
Why?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
Ponder: What does the passage mean? What questions come to mind as you consider the meaning of the passage? What other passages in the Bible help you answer your questions?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
Picture/Prose: How would you illustrate the passage? Draw a picture of diagram that represents the meaning of the passage AND/OR write out the passage in your own words.
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Purpose: After studying the passage how would you apply it? Write out your application this way.
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Problem: How are you falling short in this area? What needs to stop?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Principle: What basic truth for living a pure life do you see in this passage? What have you been believing that isn't true? What must you change in your thinking?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
Plan: What specific actions will you take to change in this area? What needs to start?
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
Chapter 1: Jonah 2:8
Chapter 1: Jonah 2:8
Chapter 2: Proverbs 6:27-29
Chapter 2: Proverbs 6:27-29
Chapter 3: I Corinthians 6:18-20
Chapter 3: I Corinthians 6:18-20
Chapter 4: I Peter 5:8
Chapter 4: I Peter 5:8
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
Chapter 5: Job 31:1
Chapter 5: Job 31:1
Chapter 6: Proverbs 4:14,15
Chapter 6: Proverbs 4:14,15
Chapter 7: Ephesians 5:3,4
Chapter 7: Ephesians 5:3,4
Chapter 8: I Timothy 5:1,2
Chapter 8: I Timothy 5:1,2
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
REVIEW: Look back over each of the chapters you studied. For each chapter write out the truth of the verse(s) you studied as a life principle. A principle is a basic truth or law for life.
Chapter 9: Proverbs 5:15
Chapter 9: Proverbs 5:15
Chapter 10: Proverbs 28:13
Chapter 10: Proverbs 28:13
Chapter 11: Jeremiah 17:10
Chapter 11: Jeremiah 17:10
Chapter 12: Proverbs 4:23
Chapter 12: Proverbs 4:23
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Becoming a Man of Purity
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purity principles
Accountability: What questions do you need a partner to ask you each week so that you overcome temptation and establish patterns of victory in the area of purity?
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Accountability: What questions do you need a partner to ask you each week so that you overcome temptation and establish patterns of victory in the area of purity?
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I Peter 5:8 NIV Jonah 2:8 NIV "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs."
Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
Jonah 2:8 NIV 1- Purity Principles
I Peter 5:8 NIV 4- Purity Principles
Proverbs 6:27-29 NIV Job 31:1 NIV Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man's wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished." Proverbs 6:27-29 NIV 2- Purity Principles I Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body. 3- Purity Principles I Cor 6:18-20 NIV
"I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl." Job 31:1 NIV 5- Purity Principles Proverbs 4:14,15 NIV Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil men. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn from it and go on your way. Proverbs 4:14,15 NIV 6- Purity Principles
Ephesians 5:3,4 NIV But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. Ephesians 5:3,4 NIV 7- Purity Principles
Proverbs 28:13 NIV He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy. Proverbs 28:13 NIV 10- Purity Principles
I Timothy 5:1,2 NIV Jeremiah 17:10 NIV Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.
"I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."
I Timothy 5:1,2 NIV 8- Purity Principles
Jeremiah 17:10 NIV 11- Purity Principles
Proverbs 5:15 NIV Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well.
Proverbs 4:23 NIV Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.
Proverbs 5:15 NIV 9- Purity Principles
Proverbs 4:23 NIV 12- Purity Principles
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