Yes, if the couple is not married, according to the Catholic and Orthodox churches and many Protestant churches. They teach that sex belongs only within marriage and that love, however sincere, does not change this. Within marriage sex is not a sin: Hebrews 13:4 calls the marriage bed “undefiled.” What does the Bible say about sex outside marriage? The New Testament’s word for it is porneia, which the English Standard Version translates “sexual immorality” and the King James Version “fornication.”…

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