Leviticus 18

v1-5: Just as Israel was warned about “holding on to the surviving traces of the idolatrous ways of Egypt, where they had lived before, and against being defiled by the idolatries of Canaan, to where they were now going.” so we must put off the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires, and neither love or be conformed to the world we live in. God’s laws are to kept “in our minds and… in our hands, so that we may practice them in our hearts and lives,” because “if we genuinely keep God’s commandments, even though we come short of leading sinless and perfect lives, we will find that our” path “is the way of strength, encouragement, and happiness from God.”

v6-18: These laws forbid all forms of sexual immorality, along with “all indecent and immoral behaviour and anything that could give an impression of this evil.”

v19-30: “The destruction of the Canaanites [was] a warning to the Israelites not to live like them.” In the same way, when we “put the ear of faith to the gates of the bottomless pit of hell and listen to the desperate shrieks of ruined sinners, condemned forever, whom the earth has vomited out and hell has swallowed up,” this threat of God’s judgment “should frighten us away from sin,” so to “make sure that this will not happen to [us].”