What is Sexual Immorality?

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The Bible says those who practice sexual immorality will not inherit the kingdom of God, but will be cast into eternal fire.

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What is sexual immorality? It's translated from the Greek word porneia, which means fornication. The Bible uses the word for any kind of sexual desire outside the covenant of marriage between a husband and wife, for whom

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God designed sex, that they may be one flesh. Since God created sex, He gets to define it, so any kind of sex outside His definition of marriage is immoral and idolatrous, premarital sex, adultery, homosexuality, porn, and masturbation, since sex is not intended for one person but a husband and wife.

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Jesus said if a man lusts after a woman, he's committed adultery in his heart. The culture will say sex is okay as long as two people love each other, but causing someone else to sin is not loving.

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First Corinthians 7 says, Because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

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When sex is enjoyed between a husband and wife, they protect one another from sinning. In a list of sins, sexual immorality is often at the top.

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Every other sin is outside the body, but sexual sins are committed against the body. It's self -destruction, desecrating that which was made in God's image.

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The body is for the Lord, and for those united with Christ, sexual immorality dishonors that union, defiles the temple of the

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Holy Spirit, and is likened to sleeping with prostitutes. Hebrews 13 .4 says God will judge the sexually immoral.

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Ephesians 5 .3 says that sexual immorality must not even be named among you, as is proper among the saints, when we understand the text.