Scripture consistently teaches that sexual purity is essential for believers, warning against the destructive nature of sexual sin. In 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, the apostle Paul urges believers to flee from immorality, emphasizing the sacredness of the body as a temple of the Holy Spirit. Jesus' teachings in Matthew 5:28 expand the definition of adultery to include lustful thoughts, highlighting the need for inner purity. The Bible also encourages believers to honor marriage, as seen in Hebrews 13:4, and promises that God will provide a way of escape from temptation, as stated in 1 Corinthians 10:13.
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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 sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 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; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
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, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;