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Lasciviousness
Sensuality
Introduction
 In this lesson, let us consider the Greek word
aselgeia, translated “lasciviousness” (KJV) and
“sensuality” (NASB), identified by Paul as a soulcondemning work of the flesh (Gal. 5:19-21).
 Principles derived from such a study will help us
make proper decisions regarding our conduct,
communication, dress, and demeanor, etc.
Definitions
 Thomas defines ἀσέλγεια [aselgeia] as of
uncertain origin, meaning “licentiousness,
wantonness” [766].
 BDAG say it refers to “a lack of self-constraint
which involves one in conduct that violates all
bounds of what is socially acceptable, selfabandonment.”
Definitions
 According to Thayer, aselgeia describes “unbridled
lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness,
wantonness, outrageousness, shamelessness,
insolence… wanton (acts or) manners, as filthy
words, indecent bodily movements, unchaste
handling of males and females, etc.”
Occurrences
 The Greek word aselgeia occurs 10 times in 10
Bible verses (Mark 7:22; Rom. 13:13; 2 Cor. 12:21;
Gal. 5:19; Eph. 4:19; 1 Pet. 4:3; 2 Pet. 2:2, 7, 18;
Jude 4).
 In the KJV, it is translated as “filthy,” “lasciviousness,”
and “wantonness.”
 In the NASB, it is translated “licentiousness” (1x),
“sensual”(1x), and “sensuality” (8x).
 Let us examine each of these occurrences in
succession.
Mark 7:22
And He was saying, “That which proceeds out of the
man, that is what defiles the man. For from within,
out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts,
fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, deeds of
coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit,
sensuality [#766], envy, slander, pride and
foolishness. All these evil things proceed from
within and defile the man.” (Mark 7:20-23, NASB)
Romans 13:13
The night is almost gone, and the day is near.
Therefore let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and
put on the armor of light. Let us behave properly as
in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in
sexual promiscuity and sensuality [#766], not in
strife and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and make no provision for the flesh in regard to its
lusts. (Romans 13:12-14, NASB)
2 Corinthians 12:21
For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find
you to be not what I wish and may be found by you
to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be
strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders,
gossip, arrogance, disturbances; I am afraid that
when I come again my God may humiliate me
before you, and I may mourn over many of those
who have sinned in the past and not repented of the
impurity, immorality and sensuality [#766] which
they have practiced. (2 Corinthians 12:20-21, NASB)
Galatians 5:19
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are:
immorality, impurity, sensuality [#766], idolatry,
sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger,
disputes, dissensions, factions, envying,
drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of
which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you,
that those who practice such things will not inherit
the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21, NASB)
Ephesians 4:19
So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that
you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in
the futility of their mind, being darkened in their
understanding, excluded from the life of God
because of the ignorance that is in them, because of
the hardness of their heart; and they, having
become callous, have given themselves over to
sensuality [#766] for the practice of every kind of
impurity with greediness. (Ephesians 4:17-19, NASB)
1 Peter 4:3
Therefore, since Christ has suffered in the flesh, arm
yourselves also with the same purpose, because he who
has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to
live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for the
lusts of men, but for the will of God. For the time
already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the
desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of
sensuality [#766], lusts, drunkenness, carousing,
drinking parties and abominable idolatries. In all this,
they are surprised that you do not run with them into
the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;
but they will give account to Him who is ready to judge
the living and the dead. (1 Peter 4:1-5, NASB)
2 Peter 2:2
But false prophets also arose among the people, just
as there will also be false teachers among you, who
will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even
denying the Master who bought them, bringing
swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow
their sensuality [#766], and because of them the
way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed
they will exploit you with false words; their
judgment from long ago is not idle, and their
destruction is not asleep. (2 Peter 2:1-3, NASB)
2 Peter 2:7
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast
them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness,
reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world,
but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven
others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the
ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and
Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having
made them an example to those who would live ungodly
lives thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed
by the sensual [#766] conduct of unprincipled men (for by
what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living
among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day
by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue
the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous
under punishment for the day of judgment, (2 Peter 2:4-9,
NASB)
2 Peter 2:18
For speaking out arrogant words of vanity they
entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality [#766], those
who barely escape from the ones who live in error,
promising them freedom while they themselves are
slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome,
by this he is enslaved. (2 Peter 2:18-19, NASB)
Jude vs. 4
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those
who were long beforehand marked out for this
condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace
of our God into licentiousness [#766] and deny our
only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. (Jude vs. 4,
NASB)
Relevant Application
 Salacious Literature & Sexually Suggestive
Entertainment
 Petting/Unchaste Touching
 Dancing
 Immodest Clothing
 Cheerleading