Will marriage cure my lust?

Let's today's question from an unmarried listener named Mark, dear Pastor John, I'm a 22-year-old

burdened with strong sexual desires.

Sometimes I submit to the flesh and look at pornography.

I hate this, and I'm fighting against this sin with the help of my friends.

In the meantime, I have some friends, who seek to care for my soul by quoting the Apostle

Paul, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion, first grant me in 7-9, and

they say I should marry soon.

But I also have married friends who assure me that marriage will not cure my lust and tell

me it would be a battle I would carry into marriage.

So I'm confused.

If marriage cures lust, I should marry soon.

If it doesn't cure lust, then I need to work on personal purity now without the urgency

to marry.

So which is it?

Mark, my sense is, in listening to your question, that you have a distorted maybe all or nothing

mindset.

When you say, if marriage cures lust, I should marry soon.

If it doesn't cure lust, then I need to work on personal purity now without the urgency

to marry.

Now, when you say that, it sounds to me like you have in your mind either marriage cures

lust or it doesn't.

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