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Romans 6:1-2, 12-14
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace might increase? May it never be!
How shall we who died to sin still live in it?... Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body
that you should obey its lusts, and do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin as
instruments of unrighteousness; but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead, and
your members as instruments of righteousness to God. For sin shall not be master over you, for
you are not under law, but under grace.

Speaking specifically of violating the sanctity of the human body by engaging in sexual
immorality, the apostle has even stronger words of warning.

I Corinthians 3:16-18
Do you not know that you are a temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any
man destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of God is holy, and that is
what you are. Let no man deceive himself.

Bear in mind as you consider the above words, what has been shared here about the body being
designed as a temple. There are many ways to defile the temple, and one of the most grievous
ways is through engaging in sexual immorality and debauchery. In this same letter to the church
in Corinth, the apostle informed the saints that much of the sickness and death among them was
due to the judgment of God upon their unrestrained sinfulness. Having informed them that many
are suffering sickness and death in this life for walking in a manner unworthy of Christ, Paul
informs them that the judgment of God will also be manifested in the age to come.

I Corinthians 6:9-10
Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor
thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of
God.