Subject: Fornication is a calamity!
Scriptures for this study: Matt.5:27-30
A. NIV Bible-->
Mt 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, `Do not commit adultery.'
Mt 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Mt 5:29 If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away.
It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.
Mt 5:30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away.
It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell. (NIV)
B. KJV Bible-->
Mt 5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: (KJV)
Mt 5:28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. (KJV)
Mt 5:29 And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. (KJV)
Mt 5:30 And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. (KJV)
C. Word for word Bible-->
1Co 7:28 But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you. (KJV)
(seeing a woman with a view to desire her already committed adultery with her in the heart of him.)
So if the eye of thee right causes to stumble thee pluck out it and cast from thee. for it is expedient for thee that perish one of the members of thee and not all the body of thee be cast into hell. Matt.5:29
And if the right of thee hand causes to stumble thee, cut out it and cast from thee. for it is expedient for thee that perish one of the members of thee and not all the body of thee into hell. Matt.5:30
D. What do you see in the above scriptures?
E. Also note these scriptures:
1. 1Co 7:26 Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for you to remain as you are. (NIV)
1Co 7:26 I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, (namely,) that it is good for a man to be as he is. (ASV)
2. 1Co 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: A man has his father's wife. (NIV)
1Co 5:1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one (of you) hath his father's wife. (ASV)
1Co 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. (KJV)
3. 1Co 7:1 Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. (KJV)
1Co 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. (KJV)
1Co 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. (KJV)
1Co 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. (KJV)
4. 1Thes 4:1 Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. (NIV)
1Thes 4:2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. (NIV)
1Thes 4:3 It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; (NIV)
1Thes 4:4 that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,
1Thes 4:5 not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;
1Thes 4:6 and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you. (NIV)
1Thes 4:7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 1Thes 4:8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. (NIV)