inchastity

Updated: May 6, 2025

For in the flesh we dwell and carry the old Adam about our neck, who exerts himself and incites us daily to inchastity, laziness, gluttony and drunkenness, avarice and deception, to defraud our neighbor and to overcharge him, and, in short, to all manner of evil lusts which cleave to us by nature, and to which we are incited by the society, example and what we hear and see of other people, which often wound and inflame even an innocent heart.

Martin Luther - Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau

Now it is not impurity, because Paul says, Titus 1, 15: Unto the pure all things are pure. Now such continence is easy to those who are good and occupied. Such conditions bring on all manner of inchastity. Many heretics understanding the Law of Moses incorrectly have treated marriage with contempt, for whom, nevertheless, celibacy has gained extraordinary admiration.

Philipp Melanchthon - Apology of the Augsburg Confession