In the pursuit of a holy life, believers are called to exercise self-control and purity in their relationships and desires. The apostle Paul teaches that each person should possess their body in sanctification and honor, as seen in 1 Thessalonians and 1 Corinthians. Hebrews emphasizes the importance of honoring marriage and keeping the marriage bed pure, while 1 Corinthians warns against immorality and fleeing from youthful lusts, as encouraged in 2 Timothy. By following these principles, Christians can live a life of abstinence and moral integrity, pleasing to God.
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For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Beloved, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from the desires of the flesh, which war against your soul.
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;
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care. No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?” Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.