Coming to the Still Waters

Today's verses are 1 Corinthians 7:1-5, which read, v.1, 2 - Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.  But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. We find out in this verse that the Christians in Corinth also wrote a letter to Paul with some questions and this one deals with being single or being married. There is an advantage to be single for the sake of Christ.  Paul gives us the qualification of what he is talking about by the phrase "not touch a woman."   That phrase deals with the intimate relationship for only a husband and wife.  So the single state that Paul is talking about is one that is holy in all relationships and not participating in the list of sins given in chapter 6. Because of that list of sexual sins that were happening that Paul gives us in chapter 6, he adds the word "but" which includes another time the Bib...

Today's verses are 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, which read,   v.18 - Flee immorality.  Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. This has been the chapter of 1 Corinthians to name out sin and Paul continues on.  The immorality that Paul is talking about here in context to the passage is sexual immorality.  Sin is sin but different sins have different physical and emotional consequences.  Sin is sin and all sin is opposition to God who is holy but on our human level sin is different on its effects to you and to those around you.  None of this is an excuse to sin in anyway but reality that sin has different effects on us.  The sin of sexual immorality effects our bodies mentally, emotionally, and physically. Paul doesn't say flirt with immorality but flee from immorality.  Paul doesn't say have fun with immorality but flee from immorality.  Paul doesn't say fund immoralit...