Where in the Bible does it specifically state that premarital sex is a sin?

Question

Please provide the chapter numbers, etc. Because it actually appears that it does not state anything of the sort.

Brian, please learn to read first.

Answer 1

Look up the word "fornication".

Answer 2

I do not think it specifically says "Fornication is sin" but fortification is grouped with words like murder, adultery, theft, idolatry. It is certainly inferred as a sin. Go to an on-line Bible and do a search for key words. Here are a few I found:

2 Corinthians 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.

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Answer 3

In 1 Corinthians 7:1-2 it talks about fornication being a sin and fornication means premarital sex.

Answer 4

Start with Exodus 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery."

Also, if you go to Deuteronomy 22, there are descriptions of the punishments for sexual activity outside of a valid marriage. That punishment was usually death for both participants, unless there was a rape involved. In that case, the female was excused and the man was punished.

In a few cases involving women who were pledged to a man, there was a defacto "marriage" declared and the man with whom the woman had sexual relations was considered a "husband" and there was no possibility of divorce. The man, if not the originally pledged man, became slave property of the woman's parents, permanently.

There were no other exceptions for women pledged to be married stated the I could find.

Answer 5

Heb 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually im3 It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

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4 that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,
5 not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;
6 and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him. The Lord will punish men for all such sins, as we have already told you and warned you.
7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.moral.

Answer 6

Premarital sex is fornication as pointed out by others. There are several places in the New testament where the writer says saints do no commit fornication.

Answer 7

In the dictionary for the definition of the word fornication, you would read, "Sexual intercourse between a man and a woman who are not married to each other." And another way that pre-marital sex is described in the Bible is with the words "adultery" or "lewdness." And the people who participate in pre-marital sex are referred to as "whoremongers" and "whores."

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 warns us, "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, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God."

And 1 Corinthians 6:13b, 18 tells us, "Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without (outside) the body; but he that commiteth fornication sinneth against his own body."

Answer 8

The Bible doesnt say "Thou shall remain a virgin until marriage"
However the Law itself gives details on whom you marry. A man who has sex with someone is to marry that person. A woman who has sex and doesn't marry, is an adulterer and prostitute. After consumation of a marriage, the husband was to show the sheet off their marriage bed to show his wife was a virgin (as there would be blood)

Marriage by the Law is a blood covenant. Too many passages to post, Id just suggest you read what the Bible says about Marriage and not just look up "virgin"

Answer 9

You're right... I've never seen it in there. But I think when the Bible says 'so and so took a concubine or a wife' it just means that they had sex. Not so much a marriage, so basically after they did it, it was called being married.

Answer 10

it doesn't