think Paul would not have praised the church so warmly had there been an unresolved case of that sort among them. In any case, the problem was so pervasive in that society that Paul felt obliged to touch on it frequently (for example, Romans 13:13; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 6:13; 7:2; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5). Here, Paul deals with it decisively by putting it in the context of God’s will for Christian holiness (1 Thess. 4:3a); by describing in some detail appropriate sexual conduct