where in the Bible does it say sex before marrige is sinful?

Answer 1

1Finally, 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. 2For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; 4that each of you should learn to control his own body[a] in a way that is holy and honorable, 5not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; 6and 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. 7For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 8Therefore, 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

Answer 2

Hebrews 13:4 :" Let marriage be honorable among all,and the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
Colossians 3:5,6 :" Deaden, therefore, your body members that are upon the earth as respects fornication,uncleanness,sexual appetite,hurtful desire and covetousness,which is idolatry.On account of those things the wrath of God is coming."
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."

Answer 3

Hebrews 13:4 says, "Marriage should be honored by everyone, and husband and wife should keep their marriage pure. God will judge as guilty those who take part in sexual sins."

There are a number of passages that say to avoid fornication (using the word used in the King James Version of the Bible). That word is a translation of a Greek word that, I am told, includes all sexual activity outside marriage, including before marriage. In some of these verses it is listed along with adultery, which generally refers to one marriage partner having sex with one not his/her spouse (whether that person is married or not). Some of the passages are: Acts 15:29; Colossians 3:5-6; Ephesians 5:3; Galatians 5:19-21 (calling fornication a work of the flesh as opposed to the fruit of the spirit); and 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5.

Answer 4

1 Thess. 4: 3-8: "This is what God wills...that you abstain from fornication; that each one of you should know how to get possession o fhis own vessel in sanctification and i honor, not in covetous sexual appetite such as also those nations have which do not know God;...

Eph. 5:5 "No fornicator or unclean person or greedy person-which means being an idolater- has and inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God." ( this does not mean that anyone who in the past was a fornicator cannot enjoy the blessing of God's Kingdom, but he must cease that way of life in order to have God's approval.)

Answer 5

Look up the word- "Fornication" and it is mentioned in several verses of scripture.. Here is, Ephesians 5:2-3- And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for sweet smelling savour. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as your becoming Saints.
Hope this helps.

Answer 6

It is defined in the Bible as "Immorality". The city of Corinth had the great problems with this lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 7:2-3
...because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

With immorality defined, we can do a search.
http://www.biblegateway.com/keyword/?search=immorality&version1=50&searchtype=all

Answer 7

Sex is meant for husband and wife:


1 Corinthians 7:1-2 (New International Version)
1 Corinthians 7
Marriage
1Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry.[a] 2But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.


Proverbs 5:18-20 (New International Version)

18 May your fountain be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.

19 A loving doe, a graceful deer—
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be captivated by her love.

20 Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress?
Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife?



"8:8,9 The girl was reflecting on the days when she was younger and under the care of her brothers, who wondered how to help her prepare for marriage. They decided that if she was a like a wall, standing firm against sexual temptation, they would praise her. But if she was like a door open to immorality, they would take steps to guard her from doing something foolish. In 8:10, she testifies that she has been persistent in her morality and thus has found favor in Solomon's eyes" (Life Application Study Bible, New International Version):

Song of Solomon 8:8-12 (New International Version)

Friends
8 We have a young sister,
and her breasts are not yet grown.
What shall we do for our sister
for the day she is spoken for?
9 If she is a wall,
we will build towers of silver on her.
If she is a door,
we will enclose her with panels of cedar.

Beloved
10 I am a wall,
and my breasts are like towers.
Thus I have become in his eyes
like one bringing contentment.
11 Solomon had a vineyard in Baal Hamon;
he let out his vineyard to tenants.
Each was to bring for its fruit
a thousand shekels [e] of silver.

12 But my own vineyard is mine to give;
the thousand shekels are for you, O Solomon,
and two hundred [f] are for those who tend its fruit.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Looking up fornication is a good idea...sinful lust of the flesh are mostly sexual.
I read this and thought of the woman at the well.
(John 4:16)
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
4:18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now has is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
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That is saying that the ones that she has been with...are her husbands because they were sexual (being with them), And the Bible speaks great deals on Marriage, husband to love you own wife (not some one else)
Ephesians 5:25
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife
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2 Timothy 3
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

3:2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3:3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
3:4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
3:6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
3:7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
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It is sinful, there are many more but if you really know God, then you already know that it is against Him, and after you know that it is not His will 4 us to do, then you are held accountable for those actions.
In many places it talks about the harlot.
And the little story we remember of Samson and Delilah....read that one! (It is inJudges)
ICorinthians 3:16
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
3:17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
3:18 Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

Answer 10

So many scriptures, so little time.

Try Hebrews 13 for starters "Marriage bed should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept pure" etc.