Scripture teaches that purity is essential in all aspects of life, including relationships and marriage. In Matthew 5:28, Jesus expands the definition of adultery to include lustful thoughts, emphasizing the importance of inner purity. The apostle Paul warns in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 6:18 that those who engage in sexual immorality will not inherit the kingdom of God, and urges believers to flee from it. Hebrews 13:4 also emphasizes the importance of honoring marriage and keeping the marriage bed pure, while 1 Corinthians 10:13 assures believers that God will provide a way to escape temptation, enabling them to live a life of moral integrity.
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But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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,
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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.
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.
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 because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
Then a second angel followed, saying, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, who has made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her immorality.”