Fundamentalists -- Where in the Bible??

Question

Where in the Bible does it say that sex outside of marriage is a sin? Why is it wrong if a loving, but unmarried, couple has a sexual relationship? Please cite chapter and verse.

To me, a monogamous and loving relationship between two people (married or unmarried) is neither fornication (with implies orgy and debauchery) not sexual immorality (which implies something that hurts someone in some way). If neither person is married, then it's not adultery. It's just good clean loving.

Answer 1

1 Corinthians 7:1-2 -- Now about the questions you asked in your letter. Yes, it is good to live a celibate life. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:8-9 -- Now I say to those who aren't married and to widows it's better to stay unmarried, just as I am. But if they can't control themselves, they should go ahead and marry. It's better to marry than to burn with lust.

Hebrews 13:4 – Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.

Answer 2

Commenting on Jesus’ words in Mt 5:32 and 19:9, TDNT, Vol. VI, p. 592, says that “πορνεία [por·nei′a] refers to extra-marital intercourse.” Therefore, the Scriptures use the term por·nei′a in connection with married persons. The same dictionary, on p. 594, in connection with Eph 5:3, 5, says that Paul “realises that not every one has the gift of continence, 1 C. 7:7. As a protection against the evil of fornication the [single] man who does not have [continence] should take the divinely prescribed way of a lawful marriage, 1 C. 7:2.” Hence, the Scriptures use the term por·nei′a also in connection with unmarried persons engaging in unlawful sex relations and practices.—See 1Co 6:9.

B. F. Westcott, coeditor of the Westcott and Hort Greek text, in his work, Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, London and New York, 1906, p. 76, comments on the various meanings of por·nei′a in the Scriptures in a note on Eph 5:3, saying: “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].” By “the common sense” evidently reference is made to the modern, limited, sense involving only unmarried persons.

In addition to this literal meaning, in certain places in the Christian Greek Scriptures por·nei′a has a symbolic meaning. Concerning this meaning ZorellGr, col. 1106, says under por·nei′a: “apostasy from the true faith, committed either entirely or partially, defection from the one true God Jahve to foreign gods [4Ki 9:22; Jer 32:9; Ho 6:10 etc.; for God’s union with his people was considered like a kind of spiritual matrimony]: Re 14:8; 17:2, 4; 18:3; 19:2.” (Brackets his; 4Ki in LXX corresponds to 2Ki in M.)

In the Greek text por·nei′a occurs in the following 25 places: Mt 5:32; 15:19; 19:9; Mr 7:21; Joh 8:41; Ac 15:20, 29; 21:25; 1Co 5:1, 1; 6:13, 18; 7:2; 2Co 12:21; Ga 5:19; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1Th 4:3; Re 2:21; 9:21; 14:8; 17:2, 4; 18:3; 19:2.

The related verb por·neu′o, rendered in NW as “practice fornication” or “commit fornication,” occurs in the following eight places: 1Co 6:18; 10:8, 8; Re 2:14, 20; 17:2; 18:3, 9.

Answer 3

I think you've gotten plenty of Biblical references. There are references of husbands and wives from beginning to end.

But outside of a Bible verse, why in the world would a woman give herself up to a non-committed man? He walks away and she holds the bag. I know all the passion arguments and other excuses but in my opinion a woman is playing with fire when she allows herself in a moment of passion to risk the only thing she has to offer a future husband. One thing we know, the State isn't coming to the rescue when the guy walks.

Oh well, no wonder this world is in the state it is. What's a little bit of sex, STD or an abortion? No big deal. One mistake leads to the next.

As for your append:

You have a valid point. Does the State or God define marriage? For the protection of the couple, mainly the woman, the State decides what it takes to be considered married. But I have been around long enough to know that what you are describing as loving and committed, is false. It just doesn't work that way in real life. Yes, there are exceptions but it is by far not the rule.

Answer 4

john 8:41 acts 15:20 , 29 , 21:25 Eph. 5:3
Rev. 14:8 17:2 18:3

also

1 cor.6:9 heb . 12:16

for starters

Answer 5

Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Fornication is sex outside of marriage.
Adultery is sex with someone besides a spouse while married.

Answer 6

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body." (1 Corinthians 6:18-20)

we should refrain from this sexual stuff before marriage because it is a lust is a sin aswell

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever" (1 John 2:15-17 NKJV).

Answer 7

These are Paul's instructions to believers.
To unbelievers God has nothing to say but "Repent, and believe the Gospel."

"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

Answer 8

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 immoral."

Answer 9

1 Corinthians 7
1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband
8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I.

9But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn

Answer 10

8Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I am. 9But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.