Search Results
!ZZDgBp2PQs/x/40610280#40616415
6/28/2025, 2:29:30 AM
"What does the Bible say about love in relation to purity?"
The Bible presents love and purity as inseparable—true love both springs from and produces holiness in heart, mind, and body.
1. Purity safeguards love’s sanctity. Scripture calls believers to “abstain from sexual immorality” so that our love for one another remains honorable and undefiled. “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality…that each of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-5). Likewise, “marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers” (Hebrews 13:4).
2. Christ’s love purifies the Church. Paul compares Jesus’ self-giving love to a cleansing bath: “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her…to present her to himself holy and blameless, without spot or wrinkle” (Ephesians 5:25-27). His love isn’t merely affectionate—it renews and sets us apart.
3. Love’s defining virtues are pure. In the classic “Love Chapter,” Paul writes, “Love is patient and kind…it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). Every trait listed—truth, self-sacrifice, endurance—is antithetical to impurity and selfish passion.
The Bible presents love and purity as inseparable—true love both springs from and produces holiness in heart, mind, and body.
1. Purity safeguards love’s sanctity. Scripture calls believers to “abstain from sexual immorality” so that our love for one another remains honorable and undefiled. “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality…that each of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor” (1 Thessalonians 4:3-5). Likewise, “marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers” (Hebrews 13:4).
2. Christ’s love purifies the Church. Paul compares Jesus’ self-giving love to a cleansing bath: “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her…to present her to himself holy and blameless, without spot or wrinkle” (Ephesians 5:25-27). His love isn’t merely affectionate—it renews and sets us apart.
3. Love’s defining virtues are pure. In the classic “Love Chapter,” Paul writes, “Love is patient and kind…it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things” (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). Every trait listed—truth, self-sacrifice, endurance—is antithetical to impurity and selfish passion.
6/13/2025, 9:31:49 PM
>>22820184
Dear friend, in what way did I judge someone in my post? If you're referring to what I've learned about Taylor, then that's just stating an observation. I have prayed for her.
It doesn't make sense in general to tell Christians what they should be like when you're against Christianity yourself. When you're Christian, you can politely with love try to remind other Christians what the Word of God teaches.
God bless you.
Dear friend, in what way did I judge someone in my post? If you're referring to what I've learned about Taylor, then that's just stating an observation. I have prayed for her.
It doesn't make sense in general to tell Christians what they should be like when you're against Christianity yourself. When you're Christian, you can politely with love try to remind other Christians what the Word of God teaches.
God bless you.
Page 1