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"LET YOUR LOVE LIGHT THE WAY"
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RULES FOR HOLY LIVING
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Along With All Other Kinds Of Sexual Immorality, Sex Before Marriage / Premarital Sex Is Repeatedly Condemned In Scripture
Sex Before Marriage Has Become So Common For Many Reasons.
Far too often we focus on the “Recreation” Aspect of Sex without ...
... recognizing the “Re-Creation” Aspect.
YES SEX IS PLEASUREABLE ! GOD DESIGNED IT THAT WAY !
He wants Men & Women to enjoy sexual activity (within the confines of marriage). However, the primary purpose of sex is not pleasure, but rather reproduction.
GOD does not outlaw sex before marriage to rob us of pleasure, but to protect us from unwanted pregnancies and children born to parents who do not want them or are not prepared for them.
Imagine how much better our world would be if GOD'S pattern for sex was followed: Fewer sexually transmitted diseases,
Fewer un-wed mothers,
Fewer unwanted pregnancies,
Fewer abortions, etc.
Abstinence is GOD'S only policy when it comes to sex before marriage.
Abstinence saves lives, protects babies, gives sexual relations the proper value,
and most importantly honors GOD.
"What Does The Bible Say About Sex Before Marriage / Premarital Sex?"
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Question:
Answer:
The Bible promotes abstinence before marriage.
Sex before marriage is just as wrong as adultery and other forms of sexual immorality, because they all involve having sex with someone you are not married to.
Sex between a husband and his wife is the only form of sexual relations that God approves of (Hebrews 13:4).
Rules for Christian Living
9 Be sincere in your love for others.
Hate everything that is evil and hold tight to everything that is good.
10 Love each other as brothers and sisters and honor others more than you do yourself.
11 Never give up. Eagerly follow the Holy Spirit and serve the Lord.
12 Let your hope make you glad. Be patient in time of trouble and never stop praying.
13 Take care of God's needy people and welcome strangers into your home.
14 Ask God to bless everyone who mistreats you. Ask him to bless them and not to curse them.
15 When others are happy, be happy with them,
and when they are sad, be sad.
16 Be friendly with everyone.
Don't be proud and feel that you are smarter
than others. Make friends with ordinary people.
17 Don't mistreat someone who has mistreated you. But try to earn the respect of others,
18 and do your best to live at peace with everyone.
19 Dear friends, don't try to get even.
Let God take revenge.
In the Scriptures the Lord says,
"I am the one to take revenge and pay them back."
20 The Scriptures also say,
"If your enemies are hungry,
give them something to eat.
And if they are thirsty,
give them something to drink.
This will be the same as piling
burning coals on their heads."
21 Don't let evil defeat you, but defeat evil with good.
Romans 2
GOD'S RIGHTEOUS JUDGEMENT
1 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
2 Now we know that GOD'S judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.
3 So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?
4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that GOD'S Kindness leads you toward repentance?
5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of GOD'S wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed.
6 GOD "will give to each person according to what he has done."[a]
7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life.
8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.
9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile;
10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
11 For GOD does not show favoritism.
12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in GOD'S sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous.
14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law,
15 since they show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts now accusing, now even defending them.)
16 This will take place on the day when GOD will judge men's secrets through JESUS CHRIST, as my gospel declares.
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.” (John 1:12-13)
Romans 12 (Contemporary English Version)
