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Question:<\/span><\/p>\n

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If I have already been\u00a0twice with him, how is\u00a0it better now?<\/em><\/span> To abstain from sexual relations\u00a0until we marry?<\/em><\/span> We have been dating for a year\u00a0and we have at least three years until we graduate from college. <\/em><\/span>He believes that God has already given us His consent, since our love is honest and we do not deceive ourselves. <\/em><\/span>I explained him that\u00a0we agreed by ourselves, without Him, because we did not get married to be able to take what\u00a0belongs to us\u00a0without hiding.<\/em><\/span> I\u2019d like some\u00a0advice to help both of us from now on.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sexual relations are permissible by God\u00a0only in marriage<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

You said well\u00a0when you explained to\u00a0your boyfriend that you had\u00a0taken by yourselves and stolen\u00a0what God had prepared to give you\u00a0at the right moment and legally, by marriage.<\/span> Marriage is the\u00a0conclusion of\u00a0the covenant of marriage.<\/span> God created sexual relationship and the only legal\u00a0framework for it is marriage between a man and woman, between a husband and his wife.<\/span> This is one of the first truths\u00a0shown by God in the Bible:<\/span><\/p>\n

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For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.<\/span><\/span> (Genesis 2:24)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Every sexual relationship outside marriage is sinful<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

In the Epistle to the Hebrews God says:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.<\/span><\/span> (Hebrews 13:4)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By the fact that you started to have sexual relations when you were not married, you have defiled your bed, i.e.\u00a0your future sexual life and you have drawn\u00a0God\u2019s judgment upon you.<\/span> To continue to have sex without being married means to\u00a0insist on your fornication and thereby to further defile\u00a0your marriage and MARRIAGE\u00a0as the divine institution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Avoid sexual immorality<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

God calls all Christians to this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;\u00a0that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,\u00a0not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;\u00a0(1 Thessalonians 4:3-5)(NASB)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Neither the fact that\u00a0you have known each other\u00a0for one year nor the one that you have three more years until graduation is an excuse for fornication.<\/span> If you fear God and if you care about your future marriage and your children, then you have to cease sexual relations until marriage.<\/span> It is your choice to get married now or wait until you graduate college.<\/span> But beware of fornication.<\/span> God help you so.<\/p>\n

Translated by Felicia Rotaru<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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We pray together and we plan to marry in about a year, because now we have no\u2026","rel":"","context":"<span class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-author\">Vasile Filat<\/span>","block_context":{"text":"Answers from the Bible","link":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/answer-from-the-bible\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moldovacrestina.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/54ebb435cee08_-_9-couple-unhappy-bed-xl.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moldovacrestina.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/54ebb435cee08_-_9-couple-unhappy-bed-xl.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moldovacrestina.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/54ebb435cee08_-_9-couple-unhappy-bed-xl.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moldovacrestina.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/54ebb435cee08_-_9-couple-unhappy-bed-xl.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":81255,"url":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/can-christian-members-marry-if-they-had-sexual-relations-before-marriage\/","url_meta":{"origin":81640,"position":3},"title":"Can Christian members marry if they had sexual relations before marriage?","author":"Vasile Filat","date":"June 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: What should the pastor do when\u00a0two church members want to marry, but when they were asked, they confessed that they had sexual relations before marriage? My opinion is that they should\u00a0marry\u00a0to enter into the covenant of \u00a0marriage and thereby legalize their relationship before\u00a0God and men. The pastor (priest) must\u2026","rel":"","context":"<span class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-author\">Vasile Filat<\/span>","block_context":{"text":"Answers from the Bible","link":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/answer-from-the-bible\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":82736,"url":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/god-respects-the-intimacy-of-married-couples\/","url_meta":{"origin":81640,"position":4},"title":"God respects the intimacy of married couples","author":"Vasile Filat","date":"September 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Why can\u2019t a couple choose how they feel better in bed if is something just between the two of them? Why must they be told what they can do and what not: do not do this, because it is sin, do not do the other thing, too \u2026 Why\u2026","rel":"","context":"<span class=\"jp-relatedposts-post-author\">Vasile Filat<\/span>","block_context":{"text":"Answers from the Bible","link":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/answer-from-the-bible\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":81080,"url":"https:\/\/moldovacrestina.md\/en\/sexual-relations-before-marriage-fornication-immorality\/","url_meta":{"origin":81640,"position":5},"title":"The seriousness of sexual relations before marriage","author":"Vasile Filat","date":"November 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Question:How serious is the sin of sexual relations before you officiate your marriage ceremony, if the intentions were initially directed to marriage and eventually we got married? 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