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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