“If you’re single and struggle with lust, you need to get married.”
It sounds biblical. St. Paul does say that it is better to marry than to burn with passion, and the Christian tradition has long described marriage as a remedy for concupiscence. But does that mean marriage actually cures the vice of lust?
In this video, I look at what St. Paul is actually saying in 1 Corinthians 7, the forgotten concept of the marital debt, what Christianity means by concupiscence, and why chastity remains necessary even within marriage.
Marriage gives our sexual nature a proper context, but a wedding ring doesn’t magically turn vice into virtue.
Chapters
0:00 “If you struggle with lust, get married”
1:22 What St. Paul actually teaches
1:55 Celibacy, marriage, and conjugal rights
3:07 The forgotten marital debt
5:16 What spouses owe each other
6:23 Lust and concupiscence
6:55 Reason, appetite, and developing virtue
8:33 Why marriage doesn’t cure lust
9:33 Yes, lust can exist within marriage
11:19 The feast-day analogy
12:26 Marriage still requires continence
