where in the bible does it say you should wait to have sex until your married?

Question

just wondering

Answer 1

In the Old Testament law, sex with someone other than who you were engaged with was considered adultery.

Answer 2

The Apostle Paul wrote an entire chapter on marriage and abstention from sexual relations (1 Corinthians 7). If you are single, you should stay single. If you are already married, you should not have sex — and resultant children. According to Paul, marriage and sex are only for those who cannot control their libidinous impulses (1 Corinthians 7:8-9).

Answer 3

"Thou shalt not commit adultery".
In Biblical terms, adultery includes sex before marriage as well as extra-marital sex.
It's the 10 commandments. They're in Exodus.

(By the way, the writings of Paul that pinkcallalillie refers to were addressed to a particular group of people, not everyone. It's good to get married. But you just shouldn't have sex outside of marriage.)

Answer 4

1Co 7:1 Now I will answer the questions that you asked in your letter. You asked, "Is it best for people not to marry?"
1Co 7:2 Well, having your own husband or wife should keep you from doing something immoral.
1Co 7:3 Husbands and wives should be fair with each other about having sex.
1Co 7:4 A wife belongs to her husband instead of to herself, and a husband belongs to his wife instead of to himself.
1Co 7:5 So don't refuse sex to each other, unless you agree not to have sex for a little while, in order to spend time in prayer. Then Satan won't be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1Co 7:6 In my opinion that is what should be done, though I don't know of anything the Lord said about this matter.
1Co 7:7 I wish that all of you were like me, but God has given different gifts to each of us.
1Co 7:8 Here is my advice for people who have never been married and for widows. You should stay single, just as I am.
1Co 7:9 But if you don't have enough self-control, then go ahead and get married. After all, it is better to marry than to burn with desire.
1Co 7:10 I instruct married couples to stay together, and this is exactly what the Lord himself taught. A wife who leaves her husband
1Co 7:11 should either stay single or go back to her husband. And a husband should not leave his wife.

Answer 5

If you want to have sex before marriage its up to you. Remember you are the one who will pay for the consequenses not us. So be bright.

Answer 6

Where in nature, says you should eat an unripe banana because it is good for you. Think

Answer 7

http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mischedj/ca_chastity.html

My first point is that Chastity is more than just not having sex outside of marriage - it's an attitude, an approach to life, a commitment to live right before God, according to His standards, and not the standards of the rest of the world.

As far as chastity goes, God's word has quite a lot to say. "You shall not commit adultery". That's pretty clear, and even more so when we realise that adultery here means any sex outside of marriage. But again, chastity is more than just that; it is a lifestyle. When Scripture talks about chastity, it doesn't just say to be chaste in your sex-life, but to be chaste in the way you look at others, to be chaste in your heart and mind, and to be chaste in your speech.

In Ephesians, it says: "For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person-such a man is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."

From Corinthians: "Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." [For that is what you used to be...] And from Galatians: "The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."

So that's reasonably serious. The commands are reinforced throughout scripture: "Do not commit adultery"; "Abstain from ... sexual immorality"; "Flee from sexual immorality"; "We should not commit sexual immorality" and so on. Chastity is a precept, a rule or command that is obviously very important to God, and what's important to God should be important to us.

Behind this concept of Chastity are at least three principles: the principles of love, of faithfulness, and of purity. And these principles are based on the character and nature of God: God is love; God is faithful; and God is pure.

"Chastity includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery which is a training in human freedom." And this is a good bit: "The alternative is clear: either man (you) governs his passions and finds peace, or he lets himself be dominated by them and becomes unhappy."

Chastity Commanded:

"You shall not commit adultery"
- Exodus 20:14

''You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.' But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
- Matthew 5:27-28

Chastity in the way we look at others:
''I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a girl."
- Job 31.1

Chastity in our hearts:
"... keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids."
- Proverbs 6: 24-25 (KJV)
"Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'"
- Matthew 15:19

Chastity in our speech:
"But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity ... Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking..."
Ephesians 5:3-4

God's View of Sexual Immorality:
"For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person-such a man is an idolater-has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God."
- Ephesians 5:5

"Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders ... will inherit the kingdom of God."
- 1 Corinthians 6:9

"The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery ... and the like; ... those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."
- Galatians 5:19

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

fornication=premarital sex.

Answer 10

Fornication means premarital sex...and that is a sin.