I am wondering where in the bible it states it is s sin to cohabitat without being married.?

Answer 1

"Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; 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. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit."

I Thessalonians 4:1-8

"Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral."

Hebrews 13:4

There are other references.

Answer 2

Where you would find the prohibitions would depend on what you mean by cohabitation.
If you mean living as a married couple without the marriage - open the Bible to almost anywhere and you can find something against one or more aspects of that arrangement. Fornicating and lying for starters.
If you mean platonic roommates - that isn't one of the great weaknesses that plague humanity in the way sex does, so you'll need to look a little harder. But there are proscriptions against scandalous behavior and Jesus said if your eye causes you to sin pluck it out, if your hand causes you to sin cut it off, etc. So it wouldn't be a far stretch to say that if your living arrangements cause you to sin (lust is a sin) change your living arrangements.
If your living arrangements are such that there is no possibility of scandal and it doesn't lead to any sinful temptations or situations then it is not prohibited.

+Pax Tecum+

Answer 3

Living together implies sexual relations.
And the bible say that sexualk relations OUTSIDE of marriage is fornication.
(1 Corinthians 6:18) Flee from fornication. Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but he that practices fornication is sinning against his own body.

(1 Corinthians 7:38) Consequently he also that gives his virginity in marriage does well, but he that does not give it in marriage will do better.

(Hebrews 13:4) Let marriage be honorable among all, and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Answer 4

Too bad that no one really answered your question. Everyone assumed you meant sexual relations. From what I've read, there's nothing that specifically rejects cohabitation itself, though that situation does set you up for possible "sins," i.e. sex, open nudity, etc. Besides, it may lead to some non-Biblical issues as well if this other person is just a friend or stranger. In that case, I wouldn't condemn it, but I wouldn't want to be with a girl who lived with another guy. If you mean a partner with whom you are not married, well, the potential sexual issues are still there. If they aren't a problem, I guess you're fine.

They do tend to say, though, that uncertainty suggests that you not do it. Play it safe.

Answer 5

Illicit sex relations outside of Scriptural marriage. The Hebrew verb za·nah′ and its related forms convey the idea of harlotry, immoral intercourse, fornication, or prostitution. (Ge 38:24; Ex 34:16; Ho 1:2; Le 19:29) The Greek word translated “fornication” is por·nei′a. Regarding the meanings of por·nei′a, B. F. Westcott in his book Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians (1906, p. 76) says: “This is a general term for all unlawful intercourse, (I) adultery: Hos. ii. 2, 4 (LXX.); Matt. v. 32; xix. 9; (2) unlawful marriage, I Cor. v. I; (3) fornication, the common sense as here [Eph 5:3].” Bauer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (revised by F. W. Gingrich and F. Danker, 1979, p. 693) defines por·nei′a as “prostitution, unchastity, fornication, of every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse.” Porneia is understood to involve the grossly immoral use of the genital organ(s) of at least one human; also there must have been two or more parties (including another consenting human or a beast), whether of the same sex or the opposite sex. (Jude 7) The unlawful act of a rapist is fornication, but, of course, that does not make the person who is forcibly raped also a fornicator.

When God performed the first human marriage he said: “That is why a man will leave his father and his mother and he must stick to his wife and they must become one flesh.” (Ge 2:24) Here the standard set for man and woman was monogamy, and promiscuous sex relationship was ruled out. Also, no divorce and remarriage to another was anticipated.—See DIVORCE.

In patriarchal society God’s faithful servants hated fornication, whether between single, engaged, or married persons, and it was considered a sin against God.—Ge 34:1, 2, 6, 7, 31; 38:24-26; 39:7-9.Under the Law. The law that God gave to Israel commanded: “Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, in order that the land may not commit prostitution and the land actually be filled with loose morals.” (Le 19:29) Adultery was prohibited by the seventh commandment (Ex 20:14; De 5:18); the penalty was death for both parties. (Le 20:10) The girl found guilty of having married under the false pretense of virginity was to be put to death. (De 22:13-21) The engaged girl who committed fornication with another man was considered the same as an adulterous wife, and she was put to death. (De 22:23, 24) The single girl who committed fornication was to be married to the man who seduced her unless the father refused to permit the marriage.—Ex 22:16, 17; De 22:28, 29.

For these and other reasons, prostitutes in Israel were, doubtless with few exceptions, foreign women. The Proverbs repeatedly warn against the “strange woman” and the “foreign woman” who would entice a man to commit immorality.—Pr 2:16; 5:20; 7:5; 22:14; 23:27.

A priest was forbidden by the Law to marry a prostitute, and the daughter of a priest who committed prostitution was to be put to death and afterward burned in the fire. (Le 21:7, 9, 14) The ‘hire of a prostitute’ was not to be received as a contribution at Jehovah’s sanctuary, because prostitutes were detestable in Jehovah’s sight.—De 23:18.

It was the case of two prostitutes, handled in a wise and understanding way, that greatly strengthened the faith of the people in Solomon as the fitting successor of David to the throne of Israel. Probably the case had been one upon which the judges of the lower court could not decide, and it was referred, therefore, to the king. (De 1:17; 17:8-11; 1Sa 8:20) These women may have been prostitutes, not in a commercial sense, but women who had committed fornication, either Jewish women or, quite possibly, women of foreign descent.—1Ki 3:16-28.

Answer 6

Well, it does say that sex outside of marriage is a sin.
So if "co habitation" includes sex..then yes.
Also the bible is not big on decetion as a whole, some people think pretending to be married, is the same as being married.
Believe me, that will not hold up in court!

Answer 7

Misery loves company. Married or Marred? Look in your concordance under "marriage" and you will find bukoo verses. Actually Paul the Apostle counselled it is best to stay single and serve the Lord, than try and spend all your time and energy on pleasing a wife,[that most the time is impossible to please] .,because it waste valuable time spreading the Gospel of the Kingdome.[not the demolished one in Seattle]

Answer 8

Jesus attended the wedding in Cana and in doing so sanctified marriage. Marriage is a sacrament in the church where God conveys spiritual grace for the married couple.

Answer 9

There are several condemnations of fornication in the Bible. Fornication is sexual relations between two unmarried persons.

Answer 10

If you believe in Jesus, you are not under the 10 commandments and your sins will be remembered no more (Hebrews 10:17).