Where does it say in the bible that fornication is a sin?

Question

Where does it say in the bible that fornication (consensual sexual intercourse between a man and esp. single woman who are not married to each other) is a sin?

Answer 1

read hebrws 13:4"Marriage is honarable among all, and the bed undefined; but for fornicators and adultterers God will judge".Also Hebrew 5:5 "For this you know, that no fornicator; unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater. has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God." I hope this helped.

Answer 2

Although many verses in the Bible mention fornication as wrong and sinful, forncation in most verses does not mean sex between a man and esp a single woman. However, I found a passage in 1st Timothy that might the exception.

1 Timothy 4:13. Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.

Since it says "all fornication" this should include all types of fornication not just of idols but with human beings , men and/or women.

Answer 3

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

1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

1 Corinthians 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication.

Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Acts 21:25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

There are many more. See the link below.

Answer 4

Good God, don't you people read your Bible?
I'm an atheist and I seem to know about it than some of you do.

Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)

Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)

Of course, if you really believe this stuff

Answer 5

It doesn't. However in any culture a ceramony is observed and laws are around the binding of a man and a woman in holy matrimony. Anything outside of this is a sin. Meaning in this culture the two have to be married under the eyes of God for it to be right/not a sin.

Answer 6

just read all of 1 corinthians chapter 5 and chapter 6
1 Timothy 1:10
Hebrews 12:16, 13:4

Answer 7

Matthew 19:9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except [it be] for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Answer 8

1Corin 6:9 and it is repeated in the book of Revelation...that fornicators (along with idolators, swindlers, murderers, thieves, liars, etc.) will not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Answer 9

Nowhere. The 10 commandments merely instruct us not to engage in unlawful sex. If you both are fully prepared to accept responsibility for your actions (meaning to not create unwanted children) then there is not problem I can discern.

Answer 10

Sal's 9th letter to the Sodomites:
And you all are a bunch of friggin freaks.