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Galatians 5: v13,14,16 v13For you brethren, have been called to liberty, only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serving one another. v14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word,even this: You shall love your neighbhor as yourself. v16 I say then: Wlak in the spirit , and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

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Yes God chastises His own. Hebrews 12:5,6 "And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons; My son do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; For who the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives" Poverbs3:12 for whom the Lord loves, He corrects Just as a father the son in whom he delights God must love me, not only because the bible tells me so, but also because I have received and continmue to receive the chastening of the Lord. But God is also very gentle when he chastens, what I mean by that is that He will show you in a way that you will be able to receive, without letting your pride come in the way to receive. Likewise like Him we are to be gentle as servanrs of God. 2 timothy 2:24 And a servant of the lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all,able to teach, patient, in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant these repentance, so that they may know the truth and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.

Hi and welcome shas456; You thoughts are sound about the morals and ideals you have been sharing with us. And a lot of good advice has been given to you about keeping those sound thoughts and morals as a guiding compass for the rest of your life. It only takes one bad mistake at your age to set things off course for the rest of your life. And with much regret down the road. If you stay on track with school and keeping your virtue until you find a like minded moral fellow, you will have spared yourself a lot of grief and heartache. School at your age is the most important thing to focus on. This will determine your future. Please, please, please, guard your heart and virtue. These are yours and very precious. Very precious. They are like precious pearls, not to be thrown to swines, who will not appreciate them. This male friend you are talking about, I can understand your empathy and concern, but you have to save yourself and secure a good future for yourself. If this young man is struggling like you say, yes he needs help and he needs to find it, but not from you, from people, organizations that have the knowledge, experience and wisdom to guide him back in the right direction. He is not in a direction that is helping himself right now. And he cannot help you either. He does not need you either, he needs big time help, that may take for him years to a lifetime to recover from his wrong mind set. Distance yourself from him. Kindly but firmly. Keep healthy boundaries. If you don't know what boundaries are. Learn about them. They will protect you. Find out more about what boundaries are if you have to, and learn more about their importance for the well being and protection of your life. (Know that many people who have come from dis-function and abuse, also have lost their ability to utilize a healthy inner boundary system that God placed in every being, as a guide to protect and guide us all out of danger.) If this man has lost his boundary system, how can he help you to keep yours? With a broken or fragile boundary system, a man or woman can only act from that point of reference and bring down with them other fragile people until they find help themselves to resolve their broken boundaries system . Life is full of trickery. What is down, likes to take down others with them. What is young and innocent, the downtrodden seek to bring down with them. And then what? You then become worse off, the green stem becomes broken, less steady, with less of the good sound morals it began with. Prevention has sounder sense than having to fix something. Prevent a pregnancy, prevent a disease, prevent running into the arms of a man in trouble. Prophylactic measures ensure success. Trust the red flags that are warning you. They come from the right minded consciousness that God gave you to help save yourself. Your direction right now is tender and sound but it also needs to be guided further in that right direction. You need to follow what works, what is positive, what is sound. Your thought pattern of school and keeping your virtue is sound. Hold on to them with dignified integrity. Hanging to long around a person who has not this type of thought and virtue (be it female or male) and is going down the wrong path can absolutely bring you down with them. And then what? This man in trouble you are talking about getting more emotionally involved with, he can't help you, he will only drain and exhaust what you have. and you don't need that. You don't need to concern yourself further in getting more emotionally involved with him. Right now in the decisions making of your life and future well being, you need to keep level headed. Remember also that emotions can be misleading, they change to often. Drugs change emotions, Drinking changes emotions Sex changes emotions. Falling to quickly in love changes emotions When not sure, follow what is sound, morally sound and that does not change, like emotions do, follow what remains steady and proven to work good things in a persons life. Remember, you don't have to repeat the life path your parents went down. The choices you make now will determine the course for your very own future. Shas456,, when you give away your virtue, its gone . It will be lost, irretrievable. If you still have it now, be grateful and cherish it. Your life, your virtue, is to be given to the right man. A God fearing man, a man of morals, who wants to be the leader of the family and respect you as he respects himself, who wants to build a future with you, that is built on a rock and not on sand. To loose it to a man in trouble, without goals, moral direction for a future, without scholastic aptitudes for a future, who has trouble getting up on his own two feet, is like throwing the pearls God gave to you to the wind, trampled in the sand. Matthew 7:6 Your sound mind that you are sharing with us, is like a tender fresh green branch, full of life. It needs to be lovingingly cared for and tended to, with the right nourishment. This man is not the right nourishment that will care for you and make you become the vitues moral woman you sound like you want to be The wrong nourishment, and the wrong care especially at this time of your life, can whither away those bright green tender branches and turn them dry and hollow, brittle and broken. You don't need to throw your life and gifts away. They are yours. Be grateful you have them and take good care of them. Your life right now is a fresh, beautiful green stem, full of GOOD possibilities. Take care of it. Take care of you. Enjoy your youth, by developing your skills for your life and well being. Developing right now, your very own skills in these formative years, is also how you will get to know yourself better. Let the wise moral thoughts you shared, and that are warning you, guide you away from and towards the prize of a higher calling. It can be a wonderful time. You don't have to place yourself in a position to loose everything you got, just because someone else did. Protect yourself , protect the soul inside you, the little girl inside you who needs protection, care, and the proper love, that will bring and lift her to thrive and be of great value along the way to the jobs, people she meets , to her future children, and to her future husband. Their is a proper way to build a house and a sloppy way to build a house. A house build with a rock solid proper foundation stands the test of time. A house build quickly on a loose sandy foundations, quickly falls apart in no time flat, like a deck of cards The Holy Bible is a book that can guide you and teach you all through your life. In it, it talks about the right man a man should be, before he takes a lady to be his precious pearl. Listen to those good morals, they are your guide to life and also to God. When you go right you can't go wrong.