Ultimately the demand for chastity is, as St. Paul affirms in 1 Corinthians 6:12–20, linked for the Christian with the belief in the resurrection of the body.32 Against the libertine spirit of antinomian “tolerance” and “inclusiveness” that has infected much of visible Christendom, Scripture’s nuptial texts illustrate the tenet of Lutheran theology that willful sinning is inconsistent with faith. Saving faith, wrought by the Spirit, will indeed manifest itself through repentance, the cessation of