![]() ![]() The definition of trust in the mind deteriorates. ![]() Having sex outside of marriage results in a person forming an attachment and trusting someone with whom he or she does not have a committed relationship. When two people are intimate, the hypothalamus in the brain releases chemicals that induce feelings of attachment and trust. When God spoke of two people being joined as one, He was referring to something we’re only beginning to understand in a real, physiological way. The final reason involves the “mystery” of marriage (Ephesians 5:31-32). Even if the partner is willing, you are still helping him or her to sin and negatively altering that person’s relationship with God and others. Using someone to fulfill a desire of the flesh is self-centered and abusive. Godly, loving sex between a husband and wife is giving and unselfish. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.” Allowing your body (rather than the Spirit) to control your actions is an act of defiance against God. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before. First Thessalonians 4:3–7 says, “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. We are in a contest between our new nature in Christ and our fleshly desires. The second reason is that we are to fight our spiritual battles wearing the breastplate of righteousness (Ephesians 6:14). Therefore honor God with your bodies.” If we are in Christ, He has purchased us with the sacrifice of His life. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own you were bought at a price. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. First Corinthians 6:18–20 states, “Flee from sexual immorality. First, as believers, we are to obey what God tells us to do. There are three serious reasons to save sex for marriage. The Bible’s standard is clear: celibacy before marriage and monogamy after marriage. The morality we espouse and the actions we choose give evidence of our heart’s condition. The Bible’s emphasis is not so much on a technical or medical definition of virginity as it is on the condition of a person’s heart. Chastity should affect the heart, mind, and soul, not just certain body parts. In today’s culture, many people use the word virginity to express sexual purity however, many others use a technical definition to find loopholes in moral standards, limiting the word to mean only “the condition of never having gone all the way”-thus, a couple can do anything and everything short of sexual intercourse and still technically call themselves “virgins.” This is an unprofitable word game. When the Bible uses the word virgin, it refers to an unmarried person who has not had sexual relations (see Esther 2:2 and Revelation 14:4).
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