Biblical Concept: Lascivious Lifestyles
2 Timothy 2:22-26 22
Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the
Lord from a pure heart. 23
But refuse foolish and ignorant speculations, knowing that they produce
quarrels. 24 And the Lord's
bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach,
patient when wronged, 25 with gentleness correcting those who are in
opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge
of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil,
having been held captive by him to do his will.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8 3
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that
each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 and that no man transgress and defraud
his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before
and solemnly warned you. 7 For God has not called us for
the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.
8 Consequently, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to
you.
Romans 13:11-14 11
And this do, knowing the time, that
it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is
nearer to us than when we believed. 12
The night is almost gone, and the day is at hand. Let us therefore lay aside
the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us behave properly as in
the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and
sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. 14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in regard
to its lusts.
2 Corinthians 12:20-21
20 For I am afraid that perhaps
when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be
not what you wish; that perhaps there may
be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance,
disturbances; 21 I am afraid
that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over
many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity,
immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.
Ephesians 4:17-31 17
This I say therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no
longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because
of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; 19
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for
the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did not learn Christ in
this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in
Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former
manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in
accordance with the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in
the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in
righteousness and holiness of the truth.
25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth, each one of you, with his neighbor, for we are
members of one another. 26 Be
angry, and yet do not sin; do not let
the sun go down on your anger, 27 and do not give the devil an
opportunity. 28 Let him who
steals steal no longer; but rather let him labor, performing with his own hands
what is good, in order that he may have something
to share with him who has need. 29
Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification
according to the need of the moment,
that it may give grace to those who hear.
30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were
sealed for the day of redemption. 31
Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from
you, along with all malice.
Contrast:
Romans 12:1-2 1 I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of
worship. 2 And do not be
conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and
perfect.