Sex before Marriage

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. …

If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; …

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;