What does the Bible say about sex before marriage?
Does the word appear in the Bible?
The word "sex before marriage" does not appear in the Bible.
Editorial note: this entry is in review and will be published in full shortly. The full version will document the Greek word porneia (πορνεία) — translated 'sexual immorality' or 'fornication' — and the lexical question of what specific conduct it covers in first-century Greco-Roman context.
Every relevant passage
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
It is God's will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality, so that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God.
Editorial note: this entry is in review and will be published in full shortly.
Content in review — publishing shortly.
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