December 8—Adultery
The word for today is adultery.
“You shall not commit adultery” (Exod. 20:14).
“But a man who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself” (Prov. 6:32).
“The eye of the adulterer watches for dusk; he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’ and he keeps his face concealed” (Job 24:15).
“For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor” (1 Thess.
4:3-4).
“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl” (Job 31:1).
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (Heb. 13:4).
“You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God” (James 4:4).
“Therefore, if a man cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. Now flee from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart” (2 Tim. 2:21-22).
Prayer: Lord, Paul’s warning comes through loud and clear this morning: “Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?”
See also: Eph. 4:18-19; Rom. 6:12-13, 13:13-14; Matt. 5:27-28, 32, 19:9; John 8:4, 10-11; Mark 7:21-23; Lev. 20:10
