As Paul begins to unfold the degenerate works of the flesh, he begins by putting a spotlight on sexual sins. The sexual ethic proclaimed by Paul and the rest of the NT writers took aim at the degradation of the Greco-Roman world. This culture was so awash in sexual immorality that one writer claimed that "chastity" was the one new virtue which Christianity introduced into that world and that the gift of the gospel to the men of that era was the hope of living in sexual purity. The contextual setting of the exposition of these fleshly works of sexual sin indicates that underneath the surface of this kind of gross sexual immorality are religious and philosophical commitments. Addressing those false religious and philosophical commitments, Paul proposes a counter religious perspective spelled out in the dominant theme of the whole textual unit beginning in verse 16: walk in the Spirit. The Biblical and Christian answer to living in sexual immorality is self-control which is a gracious fruit worked in the heart of the believer by the Spirit of God.
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