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Originally Posted by Sam
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Does the Bible say anywhere that sexual activity by someone who is not legally married with someone else who is not legally married is wrong? Where?
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I don't think it clearly says so anywhere (unless we define "sexual immorality" to be a list that includes it), but Paul implies it here, IMO:
1 Cor 7:9 But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
So, in his opinion ("But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment"), the only good reason for getting married is to have sex, if you really need to. Could this one scripture be the entire basis for the taboo against premarital sex, in the Christian world?
In the OT, if premarital sex were forbidden, why is there a long list of people (close kin) who you were not to approach for sex, in
Leviticus 18?