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We live in a time when marital fidelity is under assault. Driven by forces of relativism, our society assaults sexual fidelity on numerous fronts. The push for homosexual marriages, for example, comes at the end of the fall into perversion, not the beginning. Faithless husbands began the fall long ago, and our culture, with all its washed-out self-help books, fails to address the real...

may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries. (1 Pet. 4:1–3) Peter says plainly here that suffering in the body is an effective weapon against lust. By this he does not mean asceticism—Paul tells us that has no value in checking sensual indulgence (Col. 2:23). Rather, Peter is referring to suffering for the sake of Christ, and I think we also may include the practice of bodily discipline
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