The Bible teaches that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, and we are called to honor God with our bodies. In 1 Thessalonians, we are instructed to control our own bodies in holiness and honor, while Matthew warns that looking at someone with lustful intentions is equivalent to committing adultery in our hearts. Additionally, 1 Corinthians cautions against immorality, emphasizing the importance of fleeing from sexual immorality. As James notes, our desires can lead us into temptation, and 1 John reminds us that confessing our sins brings forgiveness and cleansing, allowing us to walk in the light as He is in the light.
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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, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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.
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do. But what I hate, I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good. In that case, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh; for I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I keep on doing the evil I do not want to do. And if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it. So this is the principle I have discovered: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law.
Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
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 not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.