“Speak to the sons of Israel, and say to them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.” Leviticus 15:2 NASB Discharge – You probably will never hear a sermon preached on Leviticus 15. If you read the chapter, you will understand why. It deals with the impurity caused by a “flow”…
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; 1 Thessalonians 4:3 NASB Sexual immorality – As you know, there are two kinds of impurity in the Bible. The first is ritual impurity. All kinds of ordinary human conditions can be the cause of ritual impurity, like seminal emissions…
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, . . Galatians 5:19 Impurity – The Greek is akatharsia. This word comes from kathairo (we derive the English “catharsis”). Here Paul makes it a negative, so the meaning is “not cleansed”. The background of katharos is ritual cleansing. It is not…
