Sexual sin breeds idolatry of the flesh. Breaking it starts at the home.
Parents, impart holiness, discipline and wisdom to your children. Mold them in righteousness. Be vigilant for their innocence and chastity. If you have been errant, re-establish your moral authority. Do spiritual detoxification without delay. Children, listen to your parents. Pray for them and with them. Forgive your errant parent, if any. Make it easy for him or her to do spiritual detoxification.
Parents in the Lord and parents in civil authority, join hands with parents at home in molding the children. After all, failure in the home contributes to the breakdown of society and church.
23 Have you children? Educate them. ECCLESIASTICUS 7
3 It is a disgrace to a father to have an undisciplined child, especially if it is a daughter. SIRACH 22
24 If you have daughters, keep them virtuous, and don’t be too indulgent with them. SIRACH 7
11 If she is too self-willed, be on guard, and don’t be surprised if she disappoints you. 12 She’ll spread her legs anywhere for any man who wants her, just as a thirsty traveler will drink whatever water is available. ECCLESIASTICUS 26
5 A girl with no sense of propriety will disgrace both her husband and her father; neither will have any respect for her. SIRACH 22
11 Keep a close watch over your daughter if she is determined to have her own way. If you don’t, she may make a fool of you in front of your enemies. You will be a constant joke to everyone in town, a public disgrace. SIRACH 42
16 There are a number of ways to sin and bring down the Lord’s anger, 17 but sexual passion is a hot, blazing fire that cannot be put out at will; it can only burn itself out. A man who lives for nothing but sexual enjoyment will keep on until that fire destroys him. 18 The man who is unfaithful to his wife thinks to himself, “No one will ever know. It’s dark in here, and no one sees me. I have nothing to worry about. As for the Most High, he won’t even notice.” 19 This man is only afraid of other people. He doesn’t realize that the eyes of the Lord are 10,000 times brighter than the sun, that He sees everything we do, even when we try to hide it. 20 He knew everything before He created the world, as well as after. 21 That sinful man will be caught when he least expects it, and punished publicly. 22 The same is true of a woman who is unfaithful to her husband and presents him with a child by another man. 23 In the first place, she has broken the Law of the Most High. In the second place, she has wronged her husband. And in the third place, she has made a whore of herself by committing adultery and bearing the child of a man not her husband. 24-25 The children will suffer for her sin. They will not be able to find a place in society or establish families. She herself will be brought before the assembly 26 and permanently disgraced. There will be a curse on her memory. After she is gone, 27 everyone will realize that nothing is better than fearing the Lord, nothing is sweeter than keeping His commands. SIRACH 23 23 No one born of a forbidden marriage or any of his descendants may enter the assembly of the Lord, even down to the tenth generation. DEUTERONOMY 23
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