Monday August 18th, 2025
« Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body »
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
16 Should your fountains be dispersed abroad, streams of water in the streets?
17 Let them be only your own, and not for strangers with you.
18 Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
19 As a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and always be enraptured with her love.
20 For why should you, my son, be enraptured by an immoral woman, and be embraced in the arms of a seductress?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and He ponders all his paths.
22 His own iniquities entrap the wicked man, and he is caught in the cords of his sin.
23 He shall die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
- The phrase ‘sexual immorality’ covers all improper sexual conducts and practices like fornication, adultery, masturbation, prostitution, pornography, incest, homosexuality, rape, child sexual abuse, bestiality and so on.
There is a special relationship between these sins and the human eye as revealed in 2 Peter 2:14.
- The eye or face is sometimes used interchangeably in the Bible and both are very important for effective communication.
This is why the Bible speaks of having eyes full of adultery.
Adultery and fornication are sexual practices that are considered immoral and abominable according to the word of God.
Having eyes full of sexual immorality means communicating sexual attraction or immoral interest with the eyes or face.
In extreme cases, it could also mean that a person’s mind is always filled with sensual or erotic desire especially towards persons other than their spouses.
The fact however, remains that the allure of a promiscuous person is centered in the eyes or face, as revealed by Proverbs 6:25BSB that says,
“…Do not let her captivate you with her eyes”,
and Isaiah 3:16 that talks about walking around with stretched necks and promiscuous eyes.
For this reason, painting the face and eyelids was regarded as a means of amplifying beauty and sexual attraction; thus promiscuous people have used it as a means of seduction since Bible days (like Jezebel in 2 Kings 9:30).
Meanwhile, our Lord Jesus Christ equates looking at a member of the opposite sex lustfully with adultery Matthew 5:28 .
This means that those who deliberately makeup and dress to amplify their sexual attraction are in actual fact causing others to commit adultery on a daily basis.
Since Christians must be careful not to cause others to stumble, according to Romans 14:13 and 1 Corinthians 8:9, we all must ensure that we are modest in our dressing 1 Timothy 2:9-10 and conduct so we do not become a stumbling block in the path of others.
This is the established will of God.
Prayer focus – Father, please don’t let me ever be entangled in the web of sexual immorality, in Jesus’ name.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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