Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed...
(I Corinthians 10:8)The body is not intended for fornication because it belongs to the Lord. For this reason, you
must flee fornication:
...Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the
body...Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that
committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.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?For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God's. (I Corinthians 6:13,18-20)It is your responsibility to mortify fornication:
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth...fornication...
(Colossians 3:5)Fornication is not to even be named among believers:
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once
named among you, as becometh saints. (Ephesians 5:3)If a person continues in fornication, he finally will be given over to it totally. According to
Romans l, it can even lead to homosexuality. Eventually, his conscience will no longer be
bothered by it:
For this cause God gave them up...Being filled with all unrighteousness,
fornication...(Romans 1:26,29)UNCLEANNESS
Uncleanness is the opposite of being clean. In this passage on the works of the flesh, the word
"uncleanness" means being spiritually or morally unclean.
God does not want His people to be unclean: