The Bible treats sex outside marriage as sin, though no single verse forbids sex before marriage by name. The teaching rests on the Greek word porneia, which the King James Version translates “fornication,” and on marriage as the place where two “shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). God forgives this sin as fully as any other. Jesus once faced a woman whose accusers wanted her stoned, and when they had all gone away he said to her, “Neither do I…

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