James Brown

Procreation

Genesis 2:24 (NIV)
That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.

Procreation

Genesis 1:27-28 (NIV)
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Avoid fornication

1 Corinthians 7:2 (NIV)
But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.

Domestic purpose

Titus 2:2-5 (NIV)
Teach the older men to be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.

Renew your strength

Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)
but those who hope in the lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.

Protection

Ephesians 6:10-20 (NIV)
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.

1 John 3:1-3

1 John 3:1-3 (NIV)
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

Jeremiah 11:12

Jeremiah 11:12 (NIV)
The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes.

Jeremiah 11:13

Jeremiah 11:13 (NIV)
You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.'