In God's design for human relationships, marriage is honored as a sacred institution, with faithfulness and purity highly valued. The Bible teaches that sexual intimacy is reserved for marriage, as seen in passages like Hebrews 13:4, which emphasizes the importance of marital fidelity. Scripture also warns against immorality, with 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 and 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 urging believers to flee from sexual immorality and honor God with their bodies. Additionally, 1 Corinthians 7:2 and 7:8-9 provide guidance on marriage and celibacy, promoting self-control and a commitment to righteous living. By following these principles, Christians can maintain a high standard of moral purity.
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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.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
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. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
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.
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.
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. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, the man still must pay an amount comparable to the bridal price of a virgin.
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;