3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one wrong or exploit a brother or sister in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, just as we have already told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.
Prayer Focus: The temptation to sexual immorality – here fornication and lustful passion – has been a constant threat to God’s people from the earliest days of scripture. Idolatry and worship of other gods often included some kind of sexual encounter. So as Paul urges control for “your own body in holiness and honor,” he does not speak against sex in general. Instead, he is urging faithfulness in worship and rightly ordered love. Pray that while love might abound, that our love and sex be holy and bring honor to God.
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