Yes, if the two of you are not married: that is the teaching of the Catholic and Orthodox churches and many Protestant churches. They hold that sex belongs only within marriage, and that love, however sincere, does not change this. Within marriage sex is no sin at all. Hebrews 13:4 calls the marriage bed “undefiled.” Love is not the trouble. “Love is from God,” John writes (1 John 4:7), and Scripture is not embarrassed by desire. It gives desire somewhere…

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