Sex Is For Marriage God created sex. As the Creator, He knows more about His design than anyone.
GENESIS 1:31 NKJ
31 Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. So the evening and the morning were the sixth day.GENESIS 5:2 NKJ
2 He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created.GENESIS 2:24 NKJ
24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.The instructions God gave in the Bible are for our good. One is that sex should occur exclusively in marriage between a husband and a wife.
God is not trying to keep us from happiness, but to protect us from harm and unhappiness.
God is not against sex, only the abuse of sex -- which always has harmful consequences.
Any form of sexual activity outside the bonds of marriage is wrong, and dangerous. Human history is filled with examples of the disease, heartache, and misery caused by it.
God Is Not Against Happiness JOHN 10:10 NKJ
10 "The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.PROVERBS 14:12 NKJ
12 There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.JEREMIAH 29:11 NKJ
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.MATTHEW 7:13-14 NKJ
13 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it.
14 "Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.2 PETER 2:19 NKJ
19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.Consequences 1 JOHN 1:9 NKJ
9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.JOHN 8:3-4 NKJ
3 Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst,
4 they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act.We can receive forgiveness for our sins, but there are still consequences.
Venereal disease, unwanted pregnancies, broken hearts, and inner guilt are just some of the possible consequences of sexual sin. It is always best to follow God's instructions!
Just because you seem to have escaped any bad consequences so far, does not mean you will always. God has been merciful to you, and given you time to repent -- to change. Don't despise God's merciful patience.
REVELATION 2:20-22 NKJ
20 "Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and beguile My servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
21 "And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent.
22 "Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds.Adultery EXODUS 20:14 NKJ
14 "You shall not commit adultery.LEVITICUS 20:10 NKJ
10 `The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.DEUTERONOMY 5:18 NKJ
18 `You shall not commit adultery.MALACHI 3:5 NKJ
5 And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, against adulterers, against perjurers, against those who exploit wage earners and widows and the fatherless, and against those who turn away an alien -- because they do not fear Me," says the Lord of hosts.New Testament MATTHEW 19:18 NKJ
18 He said to Him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, " `You shall not murder,' `You shall not commit adultery,' `You shall not steal,' `You shall not bear false witness,'MARK 10:19 NKJ
19 "You know the commandments: `Do not commit adultery,' `Do not murder,' `Do not steal,' `Do not bear false witness,' `Do not defraud,' `Honor your father and your mother.' "ROMANS 7:2-3 NKJ
2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband.
3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man.ROMANS 13:9 NKJ
9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not bear false witness," "You shall not covet," and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10 NKJ
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.1 CORINTHIANS 6:15-20 NKJ
15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a harlot? Certainly not!
16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For "The two," He says, "shall become one flesh."
17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.Marriage Is Honorable 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-9 NKJ
1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment.
7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
8 But I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am;
9 but if they cannot exercise self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.HEBREWS 13:4 TEV
4 Marriage should be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.HEBREWS 13:4 JERUSALEM
4 Marriage is to be honored by all, and marriages are to be kept undefiled, because fornicators and adulterers will come under God's judgment.Fornication Fornication means sexual intercourse between unmarried people. Adultery involves sexual intercourse between people who are married, but not to each other.
EPHESIANS 5:3-5 NKJ
3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;
4 neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
5 For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.GALATIANS 5:19-21 NKJ
19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.Homosexuality LEVITICUS 18:22 NKJ
22 `You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.LEVITICUS 20:13 NKJ
13 `If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10 NKJ
9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,
10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.Resist The Devil's Temptations EPHESIANS 4:27 NKJ
27 nor give place to the devil.1 THESSALONIANS 4:3-8 NKJ
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.ROMANS 12:1-2 NKJ
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.Your sexual urges can be controlled. You are not just an animal with no choice in your actions.
It is possible for you to follow God's guidelines, which are for your good.
God did not tell you to do something which it is impossible for you to do. You can, and should, restrain yourself from all types of sexual activity outside of marriage.
God Will Help You When you are tempted, call on God for help. If you make the decision and the commitment to control yourself, God will help you.
It is also important that you remove yourself, as much as possible, from situations where you will be tempted.
If you have given yourself to unrestrained sexual activity in the past, you may need God to deliver you. You may have demonic oppression to which you opened the door.
You can be free! If it seems you are driven to perverted activity, you need help. Jesus will set you free.
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