What Does the Bible Say About Sex Before Marriage?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Sexual desire is natural and good, but even good desires can be corrupted. Adriel Sanchez shares why the Bible's view of sex isn't arcane or restrictive, but upholds the goodness of sex and why dating couples should persevere and honor each other with their bodies.
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| 0:37.6 | According to the Bible, if you're dating someone and in a committed relationship, |
| 0:41.7 | maybe the two of you genuinely love each other, is it okay to have sex? |
| 0:45.9 | Or if it's not okay to have sex, how far can you go before you've crossed the line? |
| 0:50.5 | What does the Bible say about sex before marriage? |
| 1:05.0 | So let me just say right off the bat that this may be the issue in our day. And what I mean by that is that how the church addresses the question of sexual sin is super important |
| 1:09.0 | because we're living in the aftermath of the sexual revolution, which basically rejected the Bible's teaching as restrictive and |
| 1:15.0 | archaic. You hear people say things today like, why does God care about what I do in the bedroom? |
| 1:19.9 | The idea is, I'm not hurting anyone. Why should I deny myself or another person these very natural |
| 1:24.6 | pleasures? The truth is, your body belongs to the God who created you, |
| 1:30.3 | and it's meant to be used for His glory. Our bodies aren't just ours. It doesn't just belong to me. |
| 1:34.9 | They also belong to God, and this is doubly true if you're a Christian. You've been created by God |
| 1:39.7 | for His glory, and you've been purchased by the blood of Jesus so that now as Christians were to present the |
| 1:46.1 | members of our bodies as instruments, not for sin, but Paul says for righteousness. |
| 1:51.8 | It's from Romans chapter 6. Sexual desire is natural and good, just like the desire for food |
| 1:57.7 | is natural and good, but even good desires can be corrupted. |
| 2:01.4 | Consider this analogy from C.S. Lewis. |
| 2:03.7 | You can get a large audience together for a striptease act, that is, to watch a girl undress |
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