Pre-marital Sex
"It is written (Tob. 4:13): 'Take heed to keep thyself. . . from all fornication,
and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.' Now crime denotes a mortal
sin. Therefore fornication and all intercourse with other than one's wife is a mortal
sin." - St. Thomas Aquinas ("Summa Theologica" 13th century
A.D.)
"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but
he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." - 1
Corinthians 6:18
"For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit,
lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil
things come from within, and defile the man." - Mark 7:21-23
"Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but
whoremongers and adulterers God will judge." - Hebrews 13:4
"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication,
uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which
is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of
disobedience...." - Colossians 3:5-6
"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once
named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking,
nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye
know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an
idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom
of Christ and of God." - Ephesians
5:3-5
"[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the
lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit
against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye
cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not
under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these];
Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft,
hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings,
murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you
before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God." - Galatians 5:16-21
What
Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Pre-Marital Sex:"
2353. "Fornication is carnal union between an unmarried man and an
unmarried woman. It is gravely contrary to the dignity of persons and of human
sexuality which is naturally ordered to the good of spouses and the generation
and education of children. Moreover, it is a grave scandal when there is
corruption of the young."
2396. "Among the sins gravely contrary to chastity are masturbation,
fornication, pornography, and homosexual practices."
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