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Paul's Christian Approach to Sexuality
Sexuality is to be controlled
1 Corinthians 6:15
“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!”
1 Corinthians 6:18
Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself.”
1 Corinthians 7:9
“But if they are not practicing self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.”
Paul expounds sexuality distracts from God
1 Corinthians 7:32-33
“I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to please the Lord; but the married man is anxious about the affairs of the world, how to please his wife“
1 Corinthians 7:35
“I say this for your own benefit, not to put any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and unhindered devotion to the Lord.”
Even sexuality in the covenant of marriage conflicts with devotion to God
1 Corinthians 7:37-38
“But if someone stands firm in his resolve, being under no necessity but having his own desire under control, and has determined in his own mind to keep her as his fiancée, he will do well. So then, he who marries his fiancée does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better.”
The body does not belong to the person, it belongs to God.
1 Corinthians 6:13
“The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.”
“Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!”
"Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself.”
The body is a tool for righteousness or sin according to the word of God,
Rom 6:12-13
"Therefore, do not let sin exercise dominion in your mortal bodies, to make you obey their passions. No longer present your members to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and present your members to God as instruments of righteousness."
Rom 8:22-23
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly while we wait for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.”
Rom 8:36
“As it is written, ‘For your sake we are being killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.’”
Humans are always enslaved
Believers have an eternal pact with Christ, meaning the Word of God is to be followed after death and the law of mortal men only has dominion until death
Rom 6:6
“ We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, and we might no longer be enslaved to sin.”
Rom 6:22
“But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.”
Rom 6:19
“ I am speaking in human terms because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to greater and greater iniquity, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness for sanctification.”
.“While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are slaves not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.”
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Separation of spirit and body
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
“Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.”
Gal 3:3
“Are you so foolish? Having started with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?”
The body is evil, the body's desires are evil, and believers must fight the body in order to be free of sin
Rom 7:18-19
“For I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I do.”
Rom 7:21
“So then, with my mind I am a slave to the law of God, but with my flesh I am a slave to the law of sin.”
The law is no comparison for the word of God
1 Corinthians 4-5
“If you have ordinary cases, then, do you appoint as judges those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame.”
Gal 3:11-12
“Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law; for “The one who is righteous will live by faith.’ But the law does not rest on faith; on the contrary, “Whoever does the works of the law will live by them.’”
Gal 3:24-25
“Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian”
The body is not in the jurisdiction of the law, but of God
Rom 7:5-6
“While we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are slaves not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit.”