13 versículos bíblicos sobre esperar hasta el matrimonio



  • The Bible teaches waiting until marriage through passages that place sexual union inside marriage and through New Testament commands to abstain from porneia, sexual immorality, which Strong’s lexicon glosses as fornication.
  • Paul applies the “one flesh” of Genesis 2:24 to a man joined to a prostitute (1 Corinthians 6:16).
  • For the unmarried whose desire is strong, Paul’s counsel is marriage (1 Corinthians 7:9), and he tells a betrothed couple, “let them marry—it is no sin” (7:36).
  • Exodus 22:16-17 required a man who seduced an unbetrothed virgin to pay the bride-price and marry her, unless her father refused.
  • The woman in the Song of Solomon charges the daughters of Jerusalem not to “stir up or awaken love until it pleases” at 2:7, 3:5 and 8:4.

The Bible teaches waiting until marriage by placing sexual union inside marriage and by telling Christians to abstain from sexual immorality. The passages that carry it are Genesis 2:24, Hebrews 13:4, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4 and 1 Corinthians 6-7, where Paul advises the unmarried to marry rather than “burn with passion” (7:9). The Greek word behind “sexual immorality” in those commands is porneia, which Strong’s lexicon glosses as “fornication” and defines as “promiscuity of any (every) type,” as distinct from moicheia,…

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