To avoid fornication ...

Jesus Ministries, Joan Boney  ... 

 

The Bible says:

 

I Corinthians 7  

 

1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

 

2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

 

3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

 

4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

 

5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

 

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I Corinthians 6

 

15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

 

16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith HE, shall be one flesh.

 

(By this scripture, Paul show us that at the time of sexual intercourse, even if sex is with a prostitute, the two become one flesh.)

 

17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

 

18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

 

(Sexual sins are different from all other sins.)

 

19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

 

20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's

 

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I Corinthians 5  (What to do with sins inside the church group?)

 

1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

 

2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

 

3 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

 

4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

 

(I believe we deliver that church sinner to Satan when we refuse to keep company with such.)

 

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

 

7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

 

8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

 

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

 

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

 

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 

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