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[Shelly Duffy]

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DOES THE BIBLE REALLY SPEAK AGAINST SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE?
October 15, 2021 

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It has always been God’s plan that the gift of sexual intimacy be experienced only within the protective confines of a marital union. Jesus quotes from Genesis 2:24 to support that the sexual act, described as becoming “one flesh,” is only to be shared between a husband and wife. 

There is always an effort to rationalize away Bible truth and look for loopholes, often by young people pressuring their significant others into having pre-marital sex. But defining love by flowing hormones is anything but true love. There is no physical human act more intimate and personal than sex; the bond that is developed from this act of marriage is never meant to be broken. 

The Bible teaches, “Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4). You defile the marriage bed by sleeping with someone who is not your spouse. The apostle Paul specifically defines such sin: “Because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband” (1 Corinthians 7:2). 

Paul becomes even more blatant in describing the act of unmarried people engaging in sex. “Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For ‘the two,’ He says, ‘shall become one flesh’ ” (1 Corinthians 6:16). Sex is like spiritual glue that connects two people, a husband and a wife. Marriage safeguards this special bond. 

It is not without reason that God wants us to protect this gift. When we look at the broken hearts and bodies of people who believe in recreational sex outside the boundaries of marriage, we see people who struggle with sexually transmitted diseases, abortions, unwed mothers, unwanted pregnancies, and kids growing up with one parent. Abstinence before marriage honors life and can save us from grief. 



KEY BIBLE TEXTS 
"And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,"
"And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?"
Matthew 19:4-5


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Shelley Duffy