As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
You may think yourself good or at least attempting to be good because no one's perfect, right? God says, that without Christ your "mouth is full of cursing and bitterness". If you are not speaking for God's glory your words are a cursing. "Destruction and misery are in [your] way." Things may seem good for awhile, but it will not last. Life without Christ comes to misery.
Romans 3:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the Gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." You have sinned. You deserve death. In case you think I'm pointing a finger at you, realize I'm pointing three back at myself. I have sinner. I deserve death. While this body in which I currently reside will one day pass away, my spirit will not die. Some day I will be reunited with this body - just a perfect version. Why the difference? Because of the second half of the verse, "the gift of God is eternal life". I have not just accepted this gift, but begged God that He would bestow it upon me.
Romans 10:9-10 says, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation." Salvation starts in the heart by begging Christ to take off your filthy inner self and putting Him on instead. He doesn't just wash the outside, He remakes you from the inside out. It can't stop there, though. You must confess Him. You cannot keep silent about this faith which He has given. You must (because of the change - it makes it a desire to) and desire to tell those about the change He has worked in you. You want to tell others that you now belong to Him, that "you are not your own, you were bought with a price" and getting back to the original thought, "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." I Corinthians 6:20 "Chaste" is that outer working of that inner reality as stated by that verse.
The last thing I want to touch on tangentially is being chaste as a wife means being dependent on your husband. As a wife, we cannot be pure if we depend on some other person to be for us what our husband is to be. Let me give you several examples. We cannot be pure and chaste if there is another person to whom we confide thoughts, feelings, or problems instead of our husband when our husband is to dwell with us according to knowledge (I Peter 3:7). We cannot be pure in our heart if a person other than our husband is our emotional support because he is called to love us as Christ loved the church(Ephesians 5:25-31). We cannot be pure in heart if we do not trust our husband to provide for us as Christ has called him to (Ephesians 5:29). We cannot be pure in heart if we are not willing to submit ourselves to our own husbands(Ephesians 5:22) because Christ has made him our head (Ephesians 5:23).
The point I'm wanting you to see is that the inner reality of what we are works itself out in how we act. That is what "chaste" is all about.
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