Where, in the bible, if anywhere does it literally say that you must not have sex until marriage?
I don’t have anything against people who want to save their virginity. That’s your prerogative. Just as it is mine not to. I’m asking because I’m curious about why god cares whether you are married or not when you have sex. And I’ve read a few passages in the bible here and there, but not the whole thing cover-to-cover, but I own one. So, indulge me…but not with what someone like your priest or pastor told you, but book and verse if you know it. The book is open to lots of interpretation, so I want to see the words for myself. Thanks.
You know, I feel really silly now, because I knew that "fornication" was sex out of wedlock. I’m most gracious to those of you who gave me some chapter & verse. I’ll be taking a look at it for curiosity’s sake. And if you’re interested, I do think it’s a ridiculous rule. A creator that can make earth & the stars above it in a week, but can’t make it so our naughty bits don’t work until we’re married? Sorry. I can’t buy that. Thanks again for all your input though.
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It isn’t written anywhere about this.
Look up the word fornication, and you will see that this is the word used in scripture for sex outside of marriage. Just because the exact words are not there, it does not make it not a sin- fornication means premarital sex. And that is obviously a sin in the Bible- from the Old to the New Testament.
Again I must agree with AdoreHim. That girl really understands God.
I wouldn’t have sex because I believe in Bible. And if Bible says no, I don’t want to do it.
Anyway, if you are not a believer think why would you do it before marriage? What do you achieve? If you aren’t sure will you spend the rest of your life with that person, why would you even do it?
But, the choice is yours. Hope you’ll decide right thing.
Search the word fornication through the Bible. That is sex outside of marriage.
Romans Chapter 1
"fornicators" will not inhereit the kingdom of heaven.
Fornicators = those who have sex outside of marriage
Fornication by definition is sex outside of marriage.
(fornication)
occurs 36 times in 32 verses in the KJV
The most pain any human being willingly gives to another is through divorce. The second most is through unwanted pregnancy. Sex out of marriage is selfish, dangerous and uncaring.
If you knew God you would know why he doesn’t want this. You don’t need a book.
Act 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication,
fornication is sex outside of marriage.
Lev 21:13 And he shall take a wife in her virginity .
how can you have sex before marraige if your a virgin?
1 Thes. 4:3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God
Guess the pope made that rule.he is jealous he cant have sex.
It’s called fornication, it’s in there a lot actually and it means having sex without being married. I’m not a Christian, just a guy answering your question.
1 Corinthians 6:16-18
Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh." But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit. Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
(Having sex unites you with one other person, not to go and is viewed and judged).
Though shalt not commit adultery.
Adultery is defined as having sex outside of your marriage. Many churches, in fact maybe all churches, take this to mean that the only way you can have sex is if you are married to that person. Thus, the concept that you can’t have sex before you are married.
If you feel that it doesn’t prohibit sex before marriage, and what it really means is that once you are married to someone, you can’t have sex with someone else, then go ahead and have sex.
Hope this helps.
This is as harsh as it gets
1 Corinthians 6:9 and 10
"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
be no deceived, neither FORNICATORS, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homosexuals), nor abusers of themselves (sodomites) with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
Fornication is sex before marriage, but you must ask God to forgive your sin and turn from your sinful ways. Adultery is sex with someone else other than your spouse when married.
God knows that men and women can even abstain from sex and God expects man to obey.
Deuteronomy 22
13 If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity," 15 then the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate. 16 The girl’s father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver [b] and give them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
Sex is supposed to be special, for a special kind of relationship, marriage. Anything else makes it dirty.
Fornication, or simple fornication, is a term which typically refers to voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other.
The origin of the word derives from Latin. The word fornix means "an archway" or "vault" (in Rome, prostitutes could be solicited there). More directly, fornicatio means "done in the archway"; thus a euphemism for prostitution.
Fornication is dealt with differently in various religions, societies and cultures.
But I say it like this being real, sex intended purpose was meant to multiply and make offersprings but religion says you should wait but the word of God said that you should wait and find your wife to commit that act with
Have you never read the scriptures?
*Deuteronomy 23:17-18
*1Thessalonians 4:1-8
These are two places however you can easily find more if you read the Word of God!
Are you now ready to submitt to His commands and to come to Faith in Him?
John 3:16,17,19
Good question. Sex outside of marriage is called "fornication," from the Greek word, "porn-", meaning "prostitute." And the Bible counsels against fornication many times, encouraging sex, but sex in marriage!
1 Corinthians 6:9-19 "What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, 10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. 11 And yet that is what some of YOU were. But YOU have been washed clean, but YOU have been sanctified, but YOU have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God.
12 All things are lawful for me; but not all things are advantageous. All things are lawful for me; but I will not let myself be brought under authority by anything. 13 Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God will bring both it and them to nothing. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body. 14 But God both raised up the Lord and will raise us up out of [death] through his power.
15 Do YOU not know that YOUR bodies are members of Christ? Shall I, then, take the members of the Christ away and make them members of a harlot? Never may that happen! 16 What! Do YOU not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body? For, “The two,” says he, “will be one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee from fornication. Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body." (by risking venereal disease.)
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8: "For this is what God wills, the sanctifying of YOU, that YOU abstain from fornication; 4 that each one of YOU should know how to get possession of his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in covetous sexual appetite such as also those nations have which do not know God; 6 that no one go to the point of harming and encroach upon the rights of his brother in this matter, because Jehovah is one who exacts punishment for all these things, just as we told YOU beforehand and also gave YOU a thorough witness. 7 For God called us, not with allowance for uncleanness, but in connection with sanctification. 8 So, then, the man that shows disregard is disregarding, not man, but God, who puts his holy spirit in YOU."
1 Corinthians 7:1-11: "
1 Now concerning the things about which YOU wrote, it is well for a man not to touch a woman; 2 yet, because of prevalence of fornication, let each man have his own wife and each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to [his] wife her due; but let the wife also do likewise to [her] husband. 4 The wife does not exercise authority over her own body, but her husband does; likewise, also, the husband does not exercise authority over his own body, but his wife does. 5 Do not be depriving each other [of it], except by mutual consent for an appointed time, that YOU may devote time to prayer and may come together again, that Satan may not keep tempting YOU for YOUR lack of self-regulation. 6 However, I say this by way of concession, not in the way of a command. 7 But I wish all men were as I myself am. Nevertheless, each one has his own gift from God, one in this way, another in that way.
8 Now I say to the unmarried persons and the widows, it is well for them that they remain even as I am. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be inflamed [with passion].
10 To the married people I give instructions, yet not I but the Lord, that a wife should not depart from her husband; 11 but if she should actually depart, let her remain unmarried or else make up again with her husband; and a husband should not leave his wife. "
Best regards,
Mike