The Bible teaches that marriage is a sacred institution, and that sexual intimacy is reserved for the marriage relationship. As Hebrews 13:4 states, marriage is to be honored and the marriage bed kept pure. The apostle Paul warns against immorality in 1 Corinthians 6:18 and 1 Thessalonians 4:3, emphasizing the importance of self-control and purity. In Ephesians 5:3, believers are exhorted to avoid even a hint of immorality, while 1 Corinthians 7:2 suggests that marriage is the appropriate context for sexual relations, highlighting the need for believers to prioritize chastity and faithfulness.
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Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
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.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.