In the biblical account, human intimacy is a gift from God, designed to bring joy and unity to married couples. Genesis 2:24 and 1:28 reveal that marriage is a sacred institution, with procreation as one of its purposes. The apostle Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 that mutual respect and affection are essential in the marital relationship, while Hebrews 13:4 honors marriage as a vital part of God's plan for human flourishing. Additionally, 1 Corinthians 6:18 emphasizes the importance of purity and self-control, highlighting the need for believers to approach intimacy with reverence and responsibility.
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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 this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
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. 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.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
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.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth: A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
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;
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.
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.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.