do you happen to know where it says in the Bible that sex is only for married couples?

Answer 1

1Co 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1Co 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

I found it interesting to see the word homosexuality in the English Standard Version

(ESV)1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Answer 2

I do not remember which book within the bible but I do remember it saying "it is better for a woman to be married than burn for a man" This was in the same area that discusses that God doesn't push marriage on people as it is a human rite and not one set by him.

Answer 3

I am an Atheist who finished studying the Bible decades ago. I can't quote chapter and verse and will not spend the time to research it but I can tell you the Bible is one goofy book. In response to your question you may want to check the following.

The Bible commands Man to be celibate, and if that is not possible to marry.

Additionally:
The Bible creates Man and gives him dominion over all things. Presumably including woman.
The Bible commands Man to be fruitful and multiply.
The Bible tells Man that it better to plant your seed in the belly of a whore than to let it fall fruitless on the ground.
The Bible would beat/stone adulterers to death.

Anyone who can read that book and not be confused is a far far better man than I.

As I said earlier, it's been a while and 40 years is a long time to remember random quotes exactly. It is fun to get the exact text down pat, then ask a Christian about contradictions. They usually just twist in the wind.

Answer 4

the Bible teaches about sex and marriage.
the sin of Adam [was] to be as God, to transcend creatureliness with all its limitations and become more than a man. Macarius of Alexandria gives us an example of this:
Neoplatonism sets up a false antithesis between body and soul. It forces one to make a choice (which one do you say ‘sick’em’ to?), when the biblical picture of the relationship of the material to the immaterial part of man is quite different. The apostle Paul says, for example, “Husbands, love your wives as your own body, for your wife is a member of your body. Now no man ever hated his own body, but he nourishes it and takes care of it” (Eph 5:28-29). If Paul had written this after the era of Michael Wigglesworth, he would have written, “No sane man ever hated his own body”!
“For Scripture, however, there is no such dialectical tension. The warfare is not between matter and spirit, nature and grace, or nature and freedom, but between sinful man and God. Man by his sin has declared war on God, and as a result is in a state of tension and warfare because of sin, not because of a dual nature. Man’s problem is moral and ethical, not metaphysical. Neoplatonism not only misrepresents the problem man faces,

In other words, each man is in a battle, yes. But the battle is not within himself, but between himself and God. The Bible says that “God commended his own love toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8). That is, we are
antagonistic toward God, but he has extended his love toward us. One of the curious things about neoplatonism is that it is universal. It is not found only in the west. In fact, the Greeks took some measure of satisfaction in noting that in India they could find ascetic parallels to their own philosophy. Rather than confirm the truth of neoplatonism, this confirms the direction in which all men travel when they reject the battle as having a vertical dimension. If God is left out of the picture, since all people sense a struggle, the only logical choice is a dialectical struggle within each person (after all, we all struggle with sin when no one else is around, so we can’t blame it on others all the time).
The Bible is very explicit that procreation, reproduction of the species, is a very important aspect of human sexual relations. It is the most important, in fact (Gen 1:27-27). That is one reason why most Christians believe that abortion is wrong: even when a woman conceives unintentionally, since procreation is so important an aspect of our sex lives, bringing the fetus to term overrides other considerations (not to mention the fact that most Christians also believe that the zygote, at conception, is a living human being). This is also one of the reasons the Bible speaks against homosexuality: by its very nature, homosexuality cannot fulfill the ‘prime directive’ of one’s sex life.

If God created sex, and if the Bible tells us that he created it for our pleasure, then he knows how we can get the maximum benefit out of it. The view of God as a cosmic killjoy is quite wrong; for every ‘NO’ there is a ‘YES’! It is quite true that sex outside of marriage is considered utterly sinful in the Bible. But that is only half the story: within marriage it is profoundly beautiful and utterly good.

Genesis 2 says: “they were naked and were not ashamed.” Emotional and physical vulnerability between a man and woman can only take place without fear at the level of the deepest commitment Marriage.

Answer 5

I think God intends only one man and one woman together in life. In the old testement, they surely did not have any marriage certificates. It is more or less of a knowledge that 2 people will always be together throughout life.
Other people on here left some scriptures, but think about what marriage would have meant back then.

Answer 6

I don't know where it happens to say that... but I CAN tell you that sex IS for HUMANS..... and sex is a natural human thing. Married.... Unmarried...... it really doesn't matter. You will NOT go to "hell" if you have sex before you're married -- that is just non-sense. It is a beautiful thing if you save yourself for your wife/husband....... however, if you have sex with someone else before -- it is nonconsequential -- enjoy it - practice it -- and learn some moves --- then use them on your girl.....boy/ whatever. We're human, and it's natural and NOTHING to feel bad/guilty about. love - JC

Answer 7

28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Matt.19:9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unfaithfulness, and marries another, commits adultery."
20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:20

1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
1 Cor. 5:1

13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but Elohim shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for Yahweh; and Yahweh for the body.
1 Cor. 6:13
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
1 Cor. 6:18

2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Cor 7:2

8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
1 Cor 10:8
21 And lest, when I come again, my Elohim will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
2 Cor 12:21
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:19-20

3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;
Eph 5:3

Is this enough?

Answer 8

And any variation of that is punishable by death in Leviticus!

And why is there so little sex in marriage!

Genesis Chapter One. God created man. Male and female he created them. And "it was not good for man to be alone" is understood as the basis for marriage between men and woman.
Its difficult to see same sex marriage in that account.

Answer 9

It is all over the Bible. It seems bizarre, but when you take the word of the God in your hear, it starts to make sense.

Answer 10

It is one of the commandment of the Old Testament that "You should not commit Adultery..

Jesus said in Gospels that if you looketh with lust to women you have already commit adultery in your heart..

The Last Testament says....

Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil, opening the road (to other evils).
(Al-Quran 17:32)..

Answer 11

I believe in the Bible it said that you are to only to have sex....if you want to bare a child...with the one who you have chose to share with....