A Solemn Appeal - James White

enjoined upon her to possess in sanctification and
honor, and to preserve a living sacrifice to God?
It is not pure, holy love which leads the wife to
gratify the animal propensities of her husband at
the expense of health and life. If she possesses true
love and wisdom, she will seek to divert the mind
of her husband from the gratification of lustful
passions, to high and spiritual themes, dwelling
upon interesting spiritual subjects. It may be
necessary to humbly and affectionately urge, even
at the risk of his displeasure, that she cannot debase
her body by yielding to sexual excess. She should,
in a tender, kind manner, remind him that God has
the first and highest claim upon her entire being,
which claim she cannot disregard, for she will be
held accountable in the great day of God. "What!
know ye not that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God,
and ye are not your own? for ye are bought with a
price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in
your spirit, which are God's." 1Cor.6:19,20. "Ye
are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of
men." (1 Cor. 7:23)
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