There are many of us who have joined ourselves with people, we have become one flesh with people, who aren’t our spouses, and represent all sorts of complicated feelings and emotions.
That’s where you need to know that grace is always available.
2. 1 Corinthians 6:12-14
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of
Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make
them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not
know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one
body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become
one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes
one spirit with him.
3. 1 Corinthians 6:15-18
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person
commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral
person sins against his own body.
4. We underestimate our “oneness” with Christ,
because we likely have never thought through
its implications.
5. We underestimate our “oneness” with Christ,
because we likely have never thought through
its implications.
In Christ, God has joined himself with humanity
forever, because Christ will never stop being
fully God and fully human.
6. Romans 6:5-6
5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his,
we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like
his. 6 We know that our old self was crucified with him in
order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so
that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.
7. Galatians 2:20
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who
live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in
the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me
and gave himself for me.
9. 1 Corinthians 6:17
17 But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with
him.
2 Timothy 2:13
13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot
deny himself.
10. 1 Corinthians 6:16
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a
prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is
written, “The two will become one flesh.”
11. 1 Corinthians 6:16
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a
prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is
written, “The two will become one flesh.”
12. The act of sex is intended to unite you, body to
body and soul to soul, with another human
being, so that you are never the same afterward.
15. “For this reason a man shall
leave his father and mother
and be united to his wife,
and the two shall become
one flesh.”
- Genesis 2:28 (ESV)
We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
16. We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
It’s just the two
of us!
(Private, doesn’t
involve any
images or
contact with
anyone else)
17. “…everyone who looks at a
woman with lustful intent
has already committed
adultery with her in his
heart.”
- Matthew 5:28 (ESV)
We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
It’s just the two
of us!
(Private, doesn’t
involve any
images or
contact with
anyone else)
18. Drink water from your own
cistern, running water from your
own well. Should your springs
overflow in the streets, your
streams of water in the public
squares? Let them be yours
alone, never to be shared with
strangers.
We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
It’s just the two
of us!
(Private, doesn’t
involve any
images or
contact with
anyone else)
19. We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
May your fountain be blessed, and
may you rejoice in the wife of
your youth.
A loving doe, a graceful deer—
may her breasts satisfy you
always, may you ever be
intoxicated with her love.
It’s just the two
of us!
(Private, doesn’t
involve any
images or
contact with
anyone else)
20. Why, my son, be intoxicated
with another man’s wife? Why
embrace the bosom of a
wayward woman?
- Proverbs 5:15-20 (NIV)
We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
It’s just the two
of us!
(Private, doesn’t
involve any
images or
contact with
anyone else)
21. It’s not destructive to our bodies or souls!
We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
It’s just the two
of us!
(Private, doesn’t
involve any
images or
contact with
anyone else)
22. We’re BOTH
good with it!
We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
It’s just the two
of us!
(Private, doesn’t
involve any
images or
contact with
anyone else)
It’s not destructive to our bodies or souls!
23. It’s not destructive to our bodies or souls!
Do not, for the sake of food,
destroy the work of God.
Everything is indeed clean, but it is
wrong for anyone to make another
stumble by what he eats.
- Romans 14:20 (ESV)
We’re married! (1 man/1 woman)
It’s just the two
of us!
(Private, doesn’t
involve any
images or
contact with
anyone else)
We’re BOTH
good with it!
24. 1 Corinthians 6:18
18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person
commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral
person sins against his own body.
25. Psalm 51:10
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.