Beruflich Dokumente
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I submit that the Greek and Bible context of Titus 2, Prov 5 and 1 Cor
7:2 is as follows:
1Cor 72But because of sexual immorality, each man SHOULD [i.e. is
under the absolute
command that requires full obedience to] be [SEXUALLY]
HAVING/HOLDING/ POS-
SESSING his own wife, CLOSELY [AND SEXUALLY] ADHERING,
CLINGING TO [her], and each woman SHOULD [i.e. is under the
absolute command that requires full obedience to] be [FONDLY
AND AFFECTIONATELY] HAVING/HOLDING/POSSESSING her own
husband CLOSELY [AND AFFECTIONATELY] ADHERING, CLINGING
TO [him].
These are the locations where you can find the Bible study resources I
used to do this study.
All of the above yields the following: The husband should give to his
wife the kindness, benevolence and good will in the marital/conjugal
rights that he owes to her and is morally bound to give her, and
likewise the wife should give to her husband the kindness,
benevolence and good will in the marital/conjugal rights that she owes
to him and is morally bound to give to her husband.
+++This makes 1 Cor 7:8,9 more than just a command for the
unmarried or widows who are failing to exercise self-control. This
means that not only are they sinning by failing to control themselves, it
means that they failed to marry when they failed to exercise self-
control, and are continuing in the double sin of failing to exercise self-
control as well as failing to marry because of their self-control. Their sin
has two aspects, failure to be self-controlled and failure to have
married because of their self-control. We know that the correct
response to such failure and sin is to agree with Jesus about the sin
and forsake it (1 John 1:7-9; Prov 28:13). We know that forsaking of the
sin is to take the form of the godly sorrow of 2 Cor 7:11 "For, behold,
this same thing, your being grieved according to God, how much
diligence it wrought in *you*, but what excusing of yourselves, but
what indignation, but what fear, but what ardent desire, but what zeal,
but what vengeance: in every way ye have proved yourselves to be
pure in the matter."
>>>>>>>control<1467> over
themselves<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
1467 egkrateuomai, middle voice; v
1) to be self-controlled, continent
1a) to exhibit self-government, conduct, one's self temperately
1b) in a figure drawn from athletes, who in preparing themselves
for the games abstained from unwholesome food, wine, and
sexual indulgence
But if they are not having<5736> control<1467> over themselves, . . .
---------------- being continent . . . .
-----------------exhibiting self-government . . . . .
---------------- abstaining from sex . . . . . .
This is the point where one knows he/she is not having control over
oneself, and must call on Jesus (Rm 10:17) to be saved from the sin,
agreeing with Jesus about one's sin (1Jn1:9), and yielding oneself to
Jesus for Him to work and will Godly sorrow and repentance of the sin
(Ph 2:13;4:13;Heb 13:20,21; Prov 28:13; 2 Cor 7). Part of the
repentance and godly sorrow (2Cor7) is to obey the command to get
married to deal with the problem. Why is such repentance so
important? One has lost control of oneself and is snared (2Tim2:22-26)
in sin when one habitually falls out of union with Jesus, practicing and
living sin. God will not allow His children to knowingly - (knowing that
what they are doing is declared to be sin explicitly and specifically in
the Bible) - keep on sinning, to continue on in sin, to practice and live
in sin (Hebrews 12:1-15; 1 Cor 5:1-11; 11:30ff).
1 John 3:6 No one who continues in union with Him keeps on practicing
and living in sin: no one who keeps on living in sin has seen Him or
knows Him. 7 Dear children, let no one lead you astray. The man who
continues acting righteously, practicing righteousness, is righteous,
just as He is righteous. 8 He who is habitually practicing and living in
sin is a child of the Devil, . . . . 9 No one who is a child of God habitually
practices and lives in sin. A God-given germ of life remains in him, and
he cannot habitually sin--because he is a child of God. 10 By this we
can distinguish God’s children and the Devil’s children: no one who
keeps on failing to act righteously is a child of God, nor he who does
not keep on loving his brother man. 1 John 3 WEY+TCNT+DBY