Where in the Bible does it say that it is a sin to live together?

Question

I would like verses please. Chapter, verse......

Appears I wasn't clear enough. Some understood, most didn't.

I mean when a man and woman live together before they are married, or in some cases, just housemates and nothing.

I said nothing about them having sex.

Oh, and to those who keep saying "adultery" are wrong. Look up the definition of adultery in the dictionary.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Adultery

I found no explanation that did not include the "married". I found no explanation saying premarital sex. And I never said they were having sex....so there goes that arguement there.

BTW, I don't follow the Bible, I was just wondering if it said cohabitating without having sex was sinful.....from another question on here.

Answer 1

"avoid the appearance of evil"

Answer 2

I'm not sure that the Bible says anything about cohabitation, but it definitely talks about fornication. Sure there are people who can live together and not have sex, but there sure would be a lot more temptation. If you are trying to live a life for Christ it might not be a good idea to put yourself in a situation that is most likely going to cause you to stumble.

Answer 3

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.
and merriams Webster dictonary on fornicaton:

Main Entry: for·ni·ca·tion
Pronunciation: "for-n&-'kA-sh&n
Function: noun
: consensual sexual intercourse between two persons not married to each other -- compare ADULTERY

edit: if you don't use the bible for referance why did you ask for referance from it?
and you should have said " a roomate" not "living together" in today society living together a man and a woman usally includes a BF GF relationship. by todays stanards including sex.

Answer 4

Living together and having a sexual relationship before marriage?

It's all over the Bible, including in the 10 Commandments (Exodus 20), where the 7th (Ex 20:14) says, "Thou shalt not commit adultery."

If you are having a sexual relationship, or even lusting for someone who is not your marriage partner (and if you are living with someone out of wedlock, you are certainly doing this), you are committing adultery.

Additionally, Jesus condemns the woman of the well of this sin (John 4).

Answer 5

that is fornication


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

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

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


Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Gal 5:20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Answer 6

The Bible doesn't say this. People say that a man and woman who are in a relationship shouldn't live together if they don't want to be having sex before marriage.

Answer 7

If you are just living together as friends and nothing else there is no sin in that

1 Corinthians 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,
Colossians 3:5
So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
Acts 15:20
Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from eating food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from eating the meat of strangled animals, and from consuming blood

Any sex outside the bond of marriage is sexual immorality...

Answer 8

As the term "living together" was not invented until the 1960's, you will not find it in the King James Bible (translated in 1611). Instead it uses an older English word, "fornication". The word means "to have sex with a person to whom you are not married".

Some of the scriptures about fornication include:

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

Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness

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

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.


Romans 1:28-31 God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

1 Corinthians 6:13 Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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

2Corinthians 12:21 And lest, when I come again, my God 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.

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

...just to list a few of them.

Answer 9

Thou shalt not commit adultery. Exodus 20.

That is sex with someone(s) who isn't your spouse. In the old testament if one had premarital sex with the person promised to, they had to get married. If they had sex with someone other than who they were engaged to, then it is the same as adultery.

In the new testament, fornication is sex with anyone you are not married to or not going to be married to.

Answer 10

Exodus 20:14

Answer 11

You can plainly see from the quotes above as well as Gods voice within you that hooking up with girls without the committment and bonds of marriage doesnt bring about anything but ungodliness. You should also be able to examine the real life consequences of fornication in unwanted pregnancy, broken families, adoption, AIDS, and gut-wrenching break-ups that are trademarks of fornication.