Sexual Immorality

A. Defining Sexual Immorality

What is sexual immorality?

the word for immorality is PORNEA where we get the word pornographic and pornography.

It is a broad term covering adultery and fornication

1 Corinthians 6:18–20 NASB95

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

B. Why Should we Avoid Sexual Immorality

Get married

1 Thessalonians 4:3–4 NASB95

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

1 Corinthians 7:1–4 NASB95

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

C. Why Should we Avoid Sexual Immorality

God wants to sanctify us

1 Thessalonians 4:3–4 NASB95

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

C. Dealing with Sexual Immorality

Get married

1 Corinthians 7:1–4 NASB95

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.