another. But promiscuity before marriage represents the robbing of the other of that virginity which ought to be brought to a marriage. The future partner of such a one has been defrauded. And, of course, if a child is born as the result of this sin, the little one bears the stigma of illegitimacy. Some interpreters have thought that this verse does not refer to sexual morality at all, taking “this matter” (literally, “the matter”) to refer to conduct generally (e.g., KJV, “that no man go beyond