Where does it say no sex before marriage in the Bible?

Question

I have read and learned about the Bible. I am a Christian and I havn't seen that anywhere. I mean Lot's daughters got him drunk and slept with him got preggers and God didn't do anything about it. Solomon had many concubines and mistresses- hmm no marriage there... in the Jewish custom back then it was considered ok to entertain your guests with offering your wife or daughters, Judah had sex with whom he thought was a prostitute but it was Tamar his daughter in law, Onan slept with his dead bros wife,. I could go on but what grounds support the statement of no premarital sex. I know of fornication but those acts up there negate the meaning of what fornication really is?!

Answer 1

yawn

Answer 2

Fornication, clearly means sex before marriage. Fornication is clearly frowned on in several places in the bible. Just because it is mentioned and recounted in several places in the bible doesn't green light the act. For instance, murder is clearly wrong, yet there are hundreds of accounts in the bible where people get killed. In one instance an angel struck down thousands in one night. Does that mean go out and enjoy bloodfest 2006. Obviously not.

However, at different times in human history, different beliefs and understandings have been applied to this topic. For instance, God told Adam and Eve to fill the earth and subdue it. If they were the first and only people on the earth, their kids must have been doin each other, and as time progressed, cousins, aunts, uncles, siblings, grandparents and so on. There was a time as previously mentioned where men were to take several wives and even more concubines. Then there were the one husband on wife times, the fidelity times, the times where you couldn't show a married couple sleeping together in the same bed on TV, so whos to say what time we live in now... Believe what you believe, do what you do, and God will sort it out when we're through. Unless you're Catholic than do anything you want and then just get it off your chest on Sunday in the confessional... all is forgiven

Answer 3

In Solomons day a man could have more the one wife those days have changed sex with out love is fornication even the dictionary agree voluntary sexual inter course between two unmarried people man & woman not every one the bible talks about is good no one was we have all fallen short of the glory of God thats why Jesus came to make a new covenant a new Law to Love that doesn't mean go have sex with every one std's are a plaque if you are right in the sex you are having you wont get them.

Answer 4

God created the ten commandments to guide us through life the right way. The seventh commandment says "Do not commit adultery." Exodus 20:14 (: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband) There are many times in the Bible when people do the wrong things, but it doesn't make it OK! I f you read Genesis 39:6-23 it shows you that you have to stand up for whats right and that sex outside of marriage is a sin. There are many places in the Bible that talk about sex and can help you when you need them.

Answer 5

Uh, first of all, none of those actions are condoned. Lot's line isn't favored, Abraham's becomes the father of Israel. Solomon's women are his downfall. Onan was supposed to keep the bloodline going as was the custom. You can't hold old world standards to the new world. Bloodlines and population were legitimate concerns then. Not so later on.

Anyway, it's in the Corinthians:

1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

3Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Answer 6

Saving sex for marriage is encouraged in the Bible. Read Matthew 5:8, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 and 1 Timothy 5:2. Keep in mind though, that Jesus tells us chastity is correct in His entire message. In the Catholic Catechism, it is noted several times that sex before marriage is a sin.

Answer 7

The Bible says that marriage was instituted by God, not by men[Gen. 2:18-24].

Further, human reproduction is good only in marriage[Gen.2:24; Heb.13:4; 1 Cor.7:1-9].

Fornication refers to sexual relations between two people who are not married to one another. ...Fornication is wrong because it constitutes being "one flesh with someone other than your lawful spouse. It violates God's intent for marriage.

Answer 8

Well in the bible it says nothing about not having sex before marriage because most people had arranged marriages at 14 years old so there was no concern about sex before marriage. Rather, the concern was staying faithfull during marriage (not commiting adultery). However, we all know that having sex with someone you are not married to is not good (aka what would Jesus say about this).

Answer 9

In Jewish culture, fornication was sexual relations before mariage (thus differing from adultery). Also, I Corinthians 7:1 says it is good for a man not to touch a woman, also in the context of sexuality. Unless you are married. (later on in the chapter)

Answer 10

You have to keep in mind that just because people are named in the bible and there is extensive information on that one person...doesn't mean that they were perfect. Right now we live under the dispensation of Grace...meaning we have a period of time to go to our pastor and confess our sins ( New Testament). The Old Testament lived under the Mosaic Law so their punishments were immediate. However the law cannot save a person from their sin, only prevent it.

Answer 11

Any sex happening outside of marriage is fornication by biblical standards. Just because people in the Bible did fornicate (sometimes experiencing severe consequences, sometimes not) doesn't change this.