Is sex before marriage okay if you love each other?

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Bible definitely condemns it
No, sex before marriage is sinful even if you love each other. Being in love doesn't alter the reality that the sexual act is outside of marriage--marriage being the ceremonial union of a man and woman in matrimony. Sex outside of marriage is called fornication, and the Bible definitely condemns it.
  • Matt. 15:19-20, "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. 20 These are the things which defile the man."
  • Acts 15:29, " . . . that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well."
  • 1 Cor. 6:9-10, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
  • Heb. 13:4, "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge."
So, very clearly fornication is condemned in Scripture, and there is no provision for it being acceptable just because someone loves another person. Besides if this couple is so much in love, then why don't they carry out what true love is and marry each other? True love is when you put another person first--not when you take something from them. When a man and woman engage in fornication, they declare that such love for the other person is more self-centered rather than other-centered.

What is permissible in the bedroom?


Anything is permitted in the bedroom provided it is by mutual consent, does not violate Scripture, and is between a husband and wife. Therefore, fornication, bestiality, adultery, pornography, voyeurism, sodomy, etc., are not permissible. Oral Sex is permissible as is fondling, caressing, and mutual stimulation. Of course, all of this is intended for the married couple: husband and wife.
What about different sexual positions? Again, as long as it is by mutual consent, does not violate Scripture, and is between a husband and wife, then go for it and have fun.

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  1. epicbdFebruary 19, 2016 at 11:23 PM

    Discussion on the benefits of saving sex for marriage as viewed from a
    fundamental, Christian perspective. ... leave one question unanswered: If one
    gives in to moral temptation before marriage, what's

    if sex before marriage is okay because people supposedly can't
    control themselves, then it must be okay

    Do you think it's a good idea to have sex before marriage? I think its OK

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