AA49
We are not to give ourselves to sensuality.
Category: Godliness, Holiness & Righteousness
Type: Negative
Form: Explicit
Source dataset: New Testament
Uniqueness: Not unique
Classical commandment: No
New Covenant Literal Application
Applies to Person Categories: Not specified
Literal Application: Not specified
More explanation about New Covenant Literal Application
The New Covenant Literal Application Code (NCLA) is an interpretive guide used by the authors to indicate which person categories a mitzvah applies to, and at what level of literal compliance.
It combines person categories such as Jewish, K'rov Yisrael, and Gentile, together with male/female distinctions and an application level such as mandated, recommended, optional, or prohibited.
This code reflects the authors' interpretive opinion and is provided for prayerful consideration. On this page, the technical code is summarized into plain language to help new readers understand it more easily.
Bible references
Supportive NT Scriptures
- Colossians 3:2
- Colossians 3:5
- 1 Corinthians 6:18
- 1 Corinthians 10:13
- 2 Corinthians 5:7
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Galatians 5:16-24
- James 1:14-15
- 1 John 2:16
- Matthew 5:27-30
- 1 Peter 1:14
- 1 Peter 2:11
- 1 Peter 4:3
- 2 Peter 1:5-6
- Romans 1:26-27
- Romans 13:14
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
- Titus 2:12
Supportive OT Scriptures
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Ecclesiastes 2:8
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Ephesians 4:19-20
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Exodus 20:14
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Proverbs 6:25
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Proverbs 16:32
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Commentary
Rabbi Michael Rudolph
This Mitzvah is similar to Mitzvah #GB60 in that passions and emotions are related to and part of sensuality. Sensuality is the enjoyment, expression or pursuit of things to do with our senses, i.e. feelings – especially feelings of pleasure, often sexual. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (NKJ) tells us that we “walk by faith and not by sight.” The “sight” referred to is not just eyesight; it is anything our bodies see, hear, smell, taste, feel, or otherwise detect and react to from external sources. There is a level to which such perceptions are normal and God-given, such as seeing danger and turning aside or feeling the pain of something hot and avoiding being burned. Those are not the kinds of “sensuality” that we are to avoid and, in fact, not all sensuality is to be avoided. Sexual pleasure is sensual, and when experienced appropriately within marriage is good and healthy. What this Mitzvah speaks against is “giving ourselves” to sensuality – i.e. allowing sensuality to rule us. The Apostle Paul could very well have said in 2 Corinthians 5:7: “For we walk by faith, not by sensuality.”
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