Purity Ring

Question: What is a purity ring? What does it mean? Why a ring?

The purity ring is simply something that symbolizes your commitment to staying pure in your relationships with others (meaning courtship and so on) and staying pure in your relationship with God. Rings in particular have been for centuries ways of showing uniqueness and/or wealth, but most of all they have been used as a final binding act in a covenant. The biggest example of that: the wedding ring. Wedding rings in particular are always a simple band, but that simple band signifies one of the greatest covenants a person can make to another person. A lifetime commitment all put into a metal circle small enough to fit on your finger. I recently got my purity ring from my parents for my 16th birthday. So with this small band of sterling silver I have committed myself to God first above all things.

This is about the extent my photography will probably get :)

Notice the inscription here of "Justice - Mercy - Humility"... remind you of anything? Yes, it is derived from Micah 6:8 which is my life's verse.

Yes! Purity rings are cool. But before your parents get you one think of this: Are you willing to make this commitment? Think on it long and hard before making a decision, because there is nothing worse than making a covenant unto God that you do not keep.

"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" Micah 6:8