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Jan 4, 2022 · Sexual sin defiles more than just our physical bodies (1 Corinthians 6:18). It has spiritual significance. Almost every book of the Bible renounces sexual immorality, indicating that God considers it a grave sin.
Jun 20, 2015 · I do believe sexual sin is worse than other sins. At least 1 Corinthians 6:18 implies this. Since Christians ask Jesus into their lives, He and the Holy Spirit also come to take up residence inside their bodies. Thus, a sexual sin against one's own body is a sin against God.
Jun 24, 2024 · It is an unthinkable proposition and one of the primary reasons that, for believers, sexual sins are worse than others (1 Cor. 6:12-17). “Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
- Mortal vs. Venial Sins: A Protestant and Roman Catholic Divide
- All Sin Before God Deserves and Demands Eternal Punishment
- All Sin Is Not Equal in Relation to Ourselves and Others
- The Unpardonable Sin
From the Patristic era on (e.g., Tertullian, Augustine), especially developed in Roman Catholic theology (e.g., Peter Lombard and Thomas Aquinas), a distinction was made between “mortal” sins (peccata mortalia) and “venial” sins (peccata venialia). On the surface this distinction seems to refer to differences between sins in terms of their conseque...
The Reformers were right to say that all sin before God is “mortal.” Due to Adam’s violation of God’s command (Gen. 2:15-17; 3:1-6), sin results in the penalty of both spiritual and physical death (Rom. 6:23). Sin separates us from God (Isa. 59:1-2) so that apart from Christ, we stand condemned (Rom. 8:1), under God’s wrath (Rom. 1:18-32), and need...
On this point, we have to think carefully about what Scripture teaches without minimizing the serious reality of human sin and all of its disastrous consequences. All sin before God, given who God is, deserves and demands eternal punishment, hence our need for a Redeemer. Yet, Scripture also speaks of degrees of sin depending on the context, intent...
One last issue needs mention: the serious nature of the unpardonable sin. In the Gospels, this sin is linked to the “blasphemy against the Spirit” (e.g., Matt. 12:32-32; Luke 12:10); in the epistles to various warnings of rejecting Christ and committing apostasy (Heb. 6:4-6; 10:26-31); and the “sin that leads to death” (1Jn. 5:16). Although each co...
Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body. Literal Standard Version flee the whoredom; every sin—whatever a man may commit—is outside the body, and he who is committing whoredom sins against his own body.
May 26, 2017 · The most powerful weapon against sexual impurity is humility. Patterns of sinful thought and behavior are fruits of a deeper root. If we want to stop bearing bad fruit, we must aim our primary attack against the root. And the root of sexual sin is not our sex drive; it’s pride.
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Oct 18, 2022 · 1. You Will Become a Conflicted Person Who Lacks Peace. Our passage for this point is 1 Corinthians 6:18-20. It reads: Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
