St. Paul did not love the sexually immoral, as you may think, nor did he have any regard for them. He cast them out like dogs from the church, the community of Christians which he knew and to whom he preached the Good News of Jesus Christ. When St. Paul refers to the saints in his letters, he is referring to me, not to the adulterous he is about to cast out and judge with hellfire.
He wrote in his Epistle to the Corinthians commanding them to throw out the one having sex among them. He noted one sexual act, not two or three or multiple. Just one act was enough to cast him out until he burned in the fires of satan’s grasp and came back fully repentant. The whole community knew. They would do it publicly, making an example out of him. This is what happens when you claim to be Christian and are sexually immoral the real way.
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints, writes the Apostle.
Nothing but sainthood ought to be seen and known among Christians. The slightest impurity, the slightest act of adultery, and your out of the pack, which means you lose your way to heaven until you repent.
This is not a sin you can repeat, such as gluttony, slander, enviousness, or even a lustful gaze, for these though serious to some degree do not merit casting out and barring the gates of heaven. They demand the care of a loving Father and the reminder that it leads to hell if you do it consciously and deliberately with intent.
So the Apostle writes, Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Your body is this precious, it is even precious in the eyes of the husband or wife you betrayed by not being virgin! Can you imagine, the holiest place of all time in the entire cosmos to a Jew was the temple, and now, our bodies, what they considered like trash are actually the new temple, the temple of the Holy Spirit! Sit with this. Or imagine the holiness of the holiest cathedral or church, which is our version of the temple, that we may walk within with only the highest reverence and in utmost quietude. If you were to drop a penny, or speak a little too loudly, people would look at you and judge you and think you’re weird, an abnormal person. Imagine, your body is now the cathedral of the Holy Spirit, the dwelling place of God who would only descend upon the Israelites on special occasions when everyone was sinless and in time of holy war in the holiest manner known to all.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, writes the author of Hebrews, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Just as we honor those who have died protecting us, those who feed us, those who have come before us, wise and aged, we ought to honor marriage, which is not a bond that exists with adultery, but with lifelong fidelity and loyalty between husband and wife.
Adultery used to be punished by stoning because it would cause crisis and chaos to a people on the brink of destruction relying on a holy God. Now it is punished by complete casting out of the community and church in public shaming in letter and in speech by priests and bishops of the church and by the promise of eternal hell and fires for you to abide in rather than abiding in the Christ.
Believe it or not, this is Armenian Christianity! This is what our grandmothers and grandfathers knew without noticing, like the fact I have five fingers or that I must use my feet to walk, so Christianity is virginity before marriage and complete loyalty to the last breath.