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1Cor.7:2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

( "1Cor.7:1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman." )

Once again let us recall the words above that Paul is making helpful suggestions recalling sound thought to the body of Christ Jesus that should listen to the Spirit of the congregation written into their hearts; Jesus Christ body members are under the laws of love the new covenant. Sexual immoralities has always been a problem on earth since sin enter into the first human couple passed onto each of us. It is perhaps one of the strongest works of the flesh because affection and love is tied too it.

However, let us understand that many of the Jews had more than one wife and some of those Jews had become Christian's, and were not told to put away their wives. So Paul is talking about common sense here, wisdom that any person should understand that touch is a powerful attraction to the opposite sex, sex one of the fleshes strongest emotions. Nonetheless, Christ Jesus words went even deeper into the heart of the matter when stating; that a man has committed adultery already if he lust for a woman in his heart.

Matt. 5:27 "You have heard that it was said, {TR adds "to the ancients,"} 'You shall not commit adultery;'{Exodus 20:14}
5:28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

So this problem could not be dealt with by laws of the flesh by literally plucking out and eye or two!, it was a heart condition that mus be dealt with under the law of love written into the hearts circumcising it in each child of God. If men and woman in the congregation could not keep their flesh under control than marriage would be better, but touching was not going to help until that actually happen. Unfortunately, those not regenerated by righteous life of Christ Jesus indwelling them would take Paul's words here and start a whole new religion within just a few short years, prohibiting such conduct by the execution of laws of the flesh upon sinners into massive institutions of weed-like Christ filling the whole world with apostasy against the self-regulating laws of love. Hence, which law had freed the body of Christ from yeast, and its corruption in wicked hearts of men. These weed-Christian's would soon wheel great power and authority over each other, and even nations, by a mixture of two laws, the law of love, and the laws of the flesh, which is polluted waters of prostitution.

But no human on earth, even the Jews under the law of Moses could put away such filth of the flesh, and not be a sinner, they must request from God a clean conscience, which request by faith gives them the righteous blood of Christ Jesus, not works of law that have no value at all in the Spirit body of Christ Jesus

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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