To understand God’s laws concerning sex before marriage Exodus 22:16-17 and Deuteronomy 22:13-29 are instructive.
Though the death penalty and dowry requirements Jesus dispenses with as illustrated by John 8:1-11, the principles of sexual purity yet apply.
Basically the standard is if you have sex with a woman you are to marry her and not have sex with her again until you marry her. So then if you do not intend to marry her then don’t have sex with her the first time.
If you have sex once and keep it a secret not taking steps to marry her that makes you both whores.
If you have sex and keep having sex outside of marriage that makes you both whores.
1 Corinthians 7:1-2 about having one’s own wife and husband to avoid fornication is consistent with that. This combined with 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 demonstrates that the presence of a healthy marriage means a lack of perceived need for promiscuity or whoredom and even self-pleasure. For not many though some are truly eunuchs (Matthew 19:12).
This is for all of us especially for those who deemphasize the importance of law. Indeed the law provides us with the knowledge of sin even under Christ for those Old Testament laws that yet apply. Though not all yet apply certainly sexual laws I mention herein yet apply under Christ.
Let us not be and if we are let us repent from being whores accepting God’s forgiveness based on our godly sorrow change. For God is a forgiving God willing and able to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). Though not the only thing we need to attend to, this will make our homes, churches, communities, and nation better spiritually and socio-economically and even politically, especially for the children.
Let us be mindful that 2 Corinthians 5:7-10 says: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him. For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
