Bits of Torah Truths – Torah Concept in the NT: Let Us Not Walk in Wantonness – Episode 637
Romans 13:13
וּכְמוֹ בַּיּוֹם נִתְנַהֵג נָא כַּיָּאוּת, לֹא בְּהוֹלְלוּת וּבְשִׁכְרוּת, לֹא בְּזִמָּה וּפְרִיצוּת, לֹא בְּרִיב וְקִנְאָה,
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Romans 13:13
13:13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. (NASB)
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Paul warns in Romans 13:13 to not walk in “wantonness” (Greek: koitais kai aselgeiais, sexual immorality and shameless sensuality). While the Torah doesn’t use that exact phrasing, it repeatedly warns against wanton, unrestrained, and sexually immoral living. – Torah Parallels to “Not Walking in Wantonness” – Connection to Romans 13:13 – Genesis 19:4–11 The Men of Sodom demand to abuse Lot’s guests in Sexual perversion and shamelessness, this leads to judgment. Exodus 32:6 The Golden Calf: “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” Note how Idolatry is mixed with revelry and sexual immorality. A classic picture of wanton indulgence. Leviticus 18:1–30 describes Laws against sexual immorality (incest, adultery, homosexuality, bestiality), here the Torah explicitly forbids the kinds of wanton acts Paul warns against. Leviticus 19:29 “Do not profane your daughter to make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land become full of wickedness.” This is a warning against prostitution. Also note Deuteronomy 23:17–18 “There shall be no cult prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a cult prostitute of the sons of Israel.” This law places a ban on ritual prostitution in which the Torah explicitly forbids wanton sexual practices tied to paganism. Paul’s warning in Romans 13:13 is again Torah-centered: he’s echoing the same covenantal ethic that Israel was given, holiness, restraint, and separation from the wanton practices of the nations. In the Messiah, this ethic is intensified: we are to walk as children of the day, not in the shameless indulgence that Torah already condemned. This is how Paul taught Torah, the Torah has not passed away!
