Standards of Sexual Morality

“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4). God calls Christians to purity.

Believers, first and foremost, must be morally and sexually pure (Titus 2:6).

This verse suggests that true believers of God must refrain from all acts and thoughts that incite desire not in accordance with one’s virginity or one’s marriage vows.

It stresses restraint and avoidance of all sexual actions and excitements that would defile, debase or cheapen one’s purity before God. It includes controlling one’s body “in sanctification and honour” (1 Thessalonians 4:4), and not “lust” (4:5). The instruction of Scripture is for both those who are single and those who are married.

Sexual intimacy is reserved for the marriage relationship and is approved and blessed by God only in that state. Through marriage, the husband and wife will become one flesh according to God’s will. The physical and emotional pleasures resulting from a faithful marriage relationship are ordered by God and held in honour by Him (Heb 13:4).

Bro. Erick Kiproto Mutai (Kericho, Kenya)


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