Scripture warns against the dangers of indulging in excessive and lustful desires, which can lead to a life of sin and separation from God. In Galatians, the apostle Paul lists lasciviousness as one of the works of the flesh, contrasting it with the fruit of the Spirit. The book of Jude also condemns those who pervert the grace of God into licentiousness, while 1 Peter and Colossians urge believers to abstain from fleshly lusts and mortify their earthly members, recognizing that such behavior is incompatible with a life devoted to Christ. By avoiding such sinful desires, believers can walk in the Spirit and live a life pleasing to God.
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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.
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.