In the context of marriage, the Bible teaches that husbands and wives should fulfill their mutual desires and needs, as seen in 1 Corinthians 7:3-4. However, Scripture also emphasizes the importance of purity and honor in all aspects of relationships, including intimacy, as highlighted in Hebrews 13:4. Certain behaviors, such as those described in Leviticus 18:22, are clearly condemned, while others, like those alluded to in Proverbs 30:20, are portrayed as lacking self-control. Additionally, Jude 1:10 warns against indulging in fleshly desires that defy God's design, emphasizing the need for self-control and reverence in all expressions of intimacy.
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The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden. This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual consent and for a time, so you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, so that Satan will not tempt you through your lack of self-control.
Continue in brotherly love. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them. Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers. Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?” Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace and not by foods of no value to those devoted to them. We have an altar from which those who serve at the tabernacle have no right to eat.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.