What Does The Bible Say About Sex?

Video Timeline

WELCOME

• 0:00 - Welcome with Rach Marshall

TALK with Kirsten Harding

• 06:22 - What Does The Bible Say About Sex?

• 08:13 - The Bible Celebrates Sex

• 08:44 - Sex In A Loving Committed Relationship

• 09:53 - The Bible Celebrates Singleness and Celibacy

• 11:58 - Is It A Sin To Have Sex?

• 12:36 - What The Bible Says About Sex

• 14:44 - Sex Is Bigger Than Just Sex

• 19:11 - Knowing And Serving Your Spouse's Needs

PRAYER

• 21:33 - Prayer For Ukraine

WORSHIP

• 24:07 - King Of My Heart with Lyrics

CONVERSATION STREET with Matt & Anna

• 28:30 - Conversation Street

• 32:35 - Boundaries

• 36:09 - Are We Angels Or Animals?

• 37:58 - Did Jesus Experience Sexual Temptation?

• 42:26 - What If I Have Been A Victim Of Harmful Actions In The Area Of Sex?

• 48:21 - What Are Love Languages?

CLOSING WORSHIP

• 53:32 - I Will Exalt with Lyrics

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What does the Bible say about Sex?

— Kirsten Harding

Everyone Has An Opinion On Sex

Everyone has an opinion about sex, about how we should view it, whether or not we should talk about it. What makes sex good or bad? What boundaries or limits should be around sex?

Sex is a really emotive topic, and attitudes and perspectives towards sex vary massively from place to place within different cultures. Some cultures and places would not be comfortable talking openly about sex. It would be seen as something intensely private and personal. And some places, some cultures would have a much more open attitude towards sex. If you travel, just look at the billboards and adverts. In some cultures sex sells. That's before we even get into how attitudes towards sex have changed over time.

It's probably safe to say that how a non-religious young person in the UK today views sex is probably going to be quite different to how sex was viewed say 2 or 3 thousand years ago in a Middle Eastern Jewish or Christian community, the way the Bible talks about sex. And we could be quite tempted in this modern world to say, well, you have your opinions, I have mine, each to their own as long as you're not harming someone, do what you want. But I've got to say, I'm coming from the point of view that the way the Bible calls us to live in every area of our lives, what it says about relationships and money, and work and life, the biblical perspective, I believe is the healthiest, most rewarding way to live. And that's got to be true of what the Bible says about sex as well.

The Bible Celebrates Sex

And the Bible really does have a lot to say about sex. The Bible celebrates sex. It speaks positively about certain kinds of sex. And the Bible also talks about some aspects of sex that it defines as harmful or bad. It places boundaries and parameters around six for human benefit and flourishing. There is a definite consistent culture around sex in the Bible, that spans thousands of years, and spreads across cultures and people groups.

Sex In A Loving And Committed Relationship

Now, I studied theology (many moons ago) and then I did a postgraduate teacher training. Part of that training was to teach sex education. So I'm quite used to talking about sex with young people. I'm not easily shocked. And when I say opinions and perspectives on sex vary massively, let me tell you, I know that from the experience of teaching sex ed to high school students for nearly 20 years. In sex education, we place our talk about sex into the context of a loving and committed relationships. The root of what I say today is in that the Bible has a huge amount to say about love and committed relationships. That's the context for healthy sex. Sex that is good for us and for each other. The sort of sex the Bible celebrates is sex between a husband and a wife within marriage. That is an expression of intimacy in union. The Bible, in Mark, uses the phrase of to becoming one flesh, and it's seen as good and a gift pure and holy, something that binds two people together in love.

The Bible Celebrates Singleness And Celibacy

However, the Bible also warns us in the strongest terms, that any sexual activity outside of this union will harm us or cause hurt to others. And I think often for young people, for single people, that can seem quite challenging, quite harsh. Here's this amazing thing called sex, a gift from God to humans, and we have this deep biological hormonal urge. That's how God created us. But then some people are not allowed to do it. That can seem quite harsh, quite problematic for some people. So I just want to stress that the Bible really does offer alternative for those who are not married. The Bible celebrates and affirms singleness and celibacy, abstinence and nonsexual friendships, not as second rate, but actually as equal and at times more valuable than marriage. Jesus, the most fulfilled, joyful person who ever lived, lived his entire life single without sex, and found fulfilment in his relationship with God the Father, and through close friendships with His disciples.

I think that's important to say. The Bible paints a picture of a fulfilled, joyful life without sex. And the Bible paints a picture of fulfilment and joy within marriage through the gift of sex. Both are true, and both are valid.

Angels Or Animals?

Now, when it comes to how we view sex, we can tend to fall into unhelpful extremes. Two fairly obvious traps that we can fall into when thinking or talking about sex. We can either make it the most important thing in our lives, the thing we obsess over and strive for, or we can make it something bad, dirty, something to be avoided. It's what Rob Bell in his book Sex God describes as being like angels or animals. When we deny the spiritual dimension to our existence, we end up living like animals. And when we deny the physical, sexual dimension to our existence, we end up living like angels. Both ways are destructive, because God made us human.

Is It A Sin To Have Sex?

Well, yes and no.

Is sex good or bad? Well, there can be both good sex and bad sex.

A few years ago, I was at a church leaders conference and the guy was doing a Bible talk on sex. He said sex is like food and diet, you can have good sex and bad sex, like you can have a good diet or a bad diet. He then opened it up for discussion from the audience. He asked how can sex be like a good diet? And my wonderful husband, John, put his hands straight up and said in the mic in front of about 500 people, well, you've got to get your five a day in. Yeah, pretty silly.

What The Bible Says About Sex

But the Bible starts with Adam and Eve in the garden, before sin, before any sin in the world, and they are commanded to go forth and multiply. They are told to have sex. Sex is part of the good gift of God in creation. And then as sin enters the world, God puts a very simple parameter in place to protect people, to minimise harm, and the parameter he puts in place is this. Sex is only a good thing in marriage between a man and a woman. It's that simple.

In the New Testament, our English translations often use the phrase sexual immorality. It's from the Greek word porneia, and it simply means any form of sexual activity outside of marriage. But I think we get into all sorts of problems when as Christians, we lead on the message of what we're against, rather than what we're for. It's far more important to celebrate what's good about sex, and what good sex means, rather than to major on condemning bad sex. And I say that because I think the church in general, throughout history has done a really good job at giving a bad message about sex. Sex is dirty, sex is bad, sex is wrong. And it creates a really unhealthy, weird culture when we do that. Yes, Jesus said, if a man looks lustly at another woman, it's adultery of the heart. And yes, Jesus said, if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. But what Jesus is calling us to do is to focus our gaze onto what is good and pure, and to discipline our minds, learning how to take thoughts captive.

I think it was the early church leader, Oregon, who around 200 BC castrated himself, you know, he literally cut his testes off. And for me, that just speaks of such an unhealthy, weird view of sex. Something that could have been resolved through accountability and confession and deeper intimacy with Jesus, something that probably emerged through enforced celibacy in the church at that time.

Sex Is Bigger Than Just Sex

But in the Bible, it speaks of sex within marriage, in such beautiful, pure ways. It even devotes a whole book to this sort of expression of love, physical intimacy, the Song of Songs, deemed so saucy by Orthodox Jews, that you weren't allowed to read it until you were over 30. It's a romantic poem and song between a lover and his beloved. The woman says to the man, kiss me with the kisses of your lips, let us hurry into the bedroom. The man then goes on to sing of the delight of her breasts. I mean, he really has a lot to say about her breasts. It's saucy stuff, but there's nothing rude or dirty about it. It's a celebration of the delight of sex that God intended within marriage. It's easy to miss or overlook because a lot of the times the Bible uses idiom or metaphor, much like we do today, when we speak about sex. People don't tend to say they want sex, but we talk about making love or sleeping together, or Netflix and chill. And the Bible does the same. It talks about spreading the hem of your garment over your lover, like in the book of Ruth. And what's really interesting about the language of the lover and his beloved, and the language of the hem of the garment in Ruth, is that the same language is used of God and His people, not in a physical literal way. But the Bible is so concerned to speak of the incredible love and commitment and union and intimacy between God and His people that at times it uses the metaphor and imagery of sexual union. That's because sex is bigger than just sex. And I think it really helps us to see the culture of the Bible towards sex, that sex is not dirty or bad. It's something good and pure and holy. Something that deepens intimacy, and binds two people together in commitment. I think that's why God places sex entirely within the context of marriage because when you have a healthy view of sex, when you realise just how precious, how intimate, how vulnerable it is, how deeply and profoundly it connects to people together, then it's impossible to see casual sex or hookups as anything but harmful.

When the Apostle Paul talks about this, this sense of union between two people through sex, he says that's why prostitution is so wrong because you become spiritually united with a person. Your spirits join in the act of sex. There are so many other reasons why sex works best within marriage. The risk of unwanted pregnancy, STIs, the hurt that comes when relationships break up, the desensitising and dehumanising dimension of casual sex, the way the sex industry is funded, people-trafficking and abuse, the addictive and damaging nature of pornography. I would say it's pretty obvious that God's pattern for sex is best. And I think it's really important to say that we'd really encourage you to seek professional counselling, and help if you've experienced harm through sexual experiences. Professional counselling provides a safe context to process these things.

And alongside that, talk to God about it, ask him to bring healing to you. For those in marriage, sex can be a real source of conflict and tension. How often do you do it? How rewarding is it for both people? Things like the impact of ill-health, work, or money pressures and stress, age, so many factors can feed into this. But I'd really encourage you, if you're a married couple, to talk about this, talk about your hopes and desires, get couple counselling if you need it. Watch this talk again together. Do something like the Alpha Marriage Course. What I'm saying is that sex is precious and valuable. So invest in your marriage, invest in one another, really make the effort to be intimate together in a way that is mutually rewarding. Experts say that the less you have sex in marriage, the less you want to have sex. It's a vicious cycle. But the more you have sex, the more you want to have sex. And apparently that's true for both men and women.

Knowing And Serving Your Spouse's Needs

So we have to take a long term committed view to this. I think one of the most important starting points to all of this is how we view marriage. My husband John does not exist to meet my needs, and I don't exist to meet his needs. And yet marriages thrive when each individual makes it their goal to meet their partner's needs in the widest sense, not just sexually. So you have to take the time to work out each other's love languages. And you have to make the effort to know and serve the other person's needs. And when we do that, we'll build a really great foundation for rewarding sex within marriage. I think that ultimately that's the key, the foundation to great sex in marriage. And it's really the key to navigating all those sorts of questions that Christian couples get hung up about on sex, like what things you can or can't do in the bedroom. Your focus is around love and intimacy and serving one another and expressing and communicating those needs. And that's just a little introduction to what the Bible has to say about sex.

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CONVERSATION STREET

With: Rach Marshall and John & Kirsten Harding

What is Conversation Street?

Conversation Street is part of our live stream, where the hosts (in this case, Rach, John & Kirsten) chat through Will’s talk and answer questions that were sent in through the live stream. To watch the conversation now, click here.

Rach: So, it would appear that the Bible has an awful lot to say on this topic. What really struck me was actually how celebratory the Bible is of sex. You know, I've been a Christian a long time, but I can imagine for some of our viewers that might have maybe been a bit of a surprise that the Bible does actually celebrate sex quite a lot.

Kirsten: Absolutely. In planning the talk, I knew it was important just to say this is something that God has designed and created for intimacy between two people. It's good, but it can be treated in a way that isn't good and can be diminished. Ultimately, the plan was for it to be a good thing between two people.

Rach: Yeah, I think if there's a take home message from today it would be that sex is actually God's plan for humans to be able to enjoy intimacy.

Boundaries

Rach: But let's just have a little bit more of a chat about boundaries because that's another theme that came through your talk. God doesn't say, "just follow your urges and do what you like". There seem to be boundaries that he's clearly showing us. Do you want to expand a little bit more on that?

John: I've got to say, I thought my wife did an amazing talk, but I was a bit shocked at how many times she said the word 'sex' in 20 minutes!

The truth is, you would be really hard pushed to find a person on this planet who did not believe that there should be some sort of boundaries around sex. 

The question is, where do you get your boundaries from? 

I mean we might not all agree on boundaries - what might be considered appropriate, and what might be considered harmful. But people do believe that there are things to do with sex that are appropriate and harmful. We're just trying to outline what we understand the Bible to say about that. The song we've just sang together is a brilliant song for this topic. You are good. And that is our underpinning belief that God is good whether we understand Him to be good or not. His goodness never changes. God is good if a person is in a marriage that has challenges and perhaps there's no sex in that marriage, God is good. For a person who is single, who longs to be married. God is good for a person who has been abandoned or divorced and is looking to rebuild their lives. All of those situations give us an opportunity to draw closer to God and to depend on God's love and care and compassion and healing in our lives.

I often see boundaries a little bit like the fence around the school yard, a playground. They are there so that people can have enjoyment and fun and life. A kid is not always aware that the fence is there, but it's there to stop something harmful happening. It's there for our benefit, for our safety. And that's why I think God places boundaries around sex because it is, as Kirsten said, such a powerful thing that actually makes sure that we have sex in a way that has a positive impact on ourself and our spouse, rather than in a way that creates damage and fallout.

Rach: Yeah, you alluded it to this in your talk, Kirsten, but people may have a view of the Christian church, that we're all a bit prudish or standoffish or haven't got much to say on this. But actually, your talk shows that's not the case. It sounds like God's got safety parameters, or like you say John, boundaries, that are there for a good reason. So, I just love that.

Are We Angels or Animals?

Rach: You read a quote, Kirsten, from a book by Rob Bell. I think you said, we are not animals or angels, but we are human. And I thought, wow, I've never heard that before. So, can you expand a little bit more on that for us as? What was Rob trying to get at as far as you understand?

Kirsten: I read Sex God quite a few years ago now. In preparing for the talk, I went back into it to read through it again. There's some good stuff in there, like this whole idea that we can separate ourselves into angels, where we don't even have any connection to our physical bodies, and the sensual things that we enjoy like food and sex. We put that aside. Or we take the opposite view, which historically, maybe people in the church have done, and we take on this sort of Victorian prudish type of behaviour. Or we revert to the other extreme, which is one of animal-based urges and instincts where being satisfied is our highest goal. But we're neither of those things. We're somewhere in the middle. We are humans created in God's image. We have this gift of sex that, like we've said, is so powerful and strong, and therefore needs boundaries and parameters put in place so that we can flourish as individuals in marriage. It should not be our downfall or something that tears us apart. 

Did Jesus Experience Sexual Temptation?

Rach: Yeah, that's really really helpful explanation of it. And it made me think a little bit as well of Jesus Christ living as a human. I don't want to sound controversial asking this, but do you think Jesus would have been tempted or had feelings or desires at some point, that he had to manage? What do you think?

John: I think undoubtedly. We often say when we're talking to individuals or couples in counselling that humans are sexual beings. That's why we're not angels. We have a God-given drive towards reproduction. For example, when you hear about a guy and a woman that are having a meal out together, but they're married to other people, you think that's foolish because there is a sexual attraction in humans that is God-given and natural. Jesus was fully human, and the Bible does say he was tempted in every way, and yet, didn't sin. So that's the animal instinct bit, that as humans, we have free will, but also the power to say no to those urges. And we celebrate Jesus, undoubtedly, as the only person to have ever lived the whole of his life as a sinless man. Adam and Eve started that way, but they gave into those drives towards sin and experienced the consequences of it. Everyone's a little bit on a spectrum when it comes to sexuality and sexual attraction. Some people might consider themselves to have high sex drives. Some people might consider themselves to have a low sex drives. But I think to say that Jesus never had sexual attraction is to make Jesus less than fully human. And Jesus was fully human as well as fully God.

Rach: So does that mean that we can ask God to help us with our feelings and our drives and our attractions? Do you think we can ask Him to be involved in that in our lives?

John: More than that, it means He's deeply interested in us asking Him and He wants to help us. In the scriptures it goes on to say after he was tempted in every way that He's not unable to sympathise with our weaknesses. Have you ever asked someone to help you with something that they've never struggled with? It makes you feel a little bit looked down on, or belittled.

Jesus is not like that with us. Jesus is actually willing to help us in our weakness because he too experienced the challenges that we experience.

Rach: And you know, that really encourages me because I think, in our culture, in the UK, probably in the West, is that it feels highly sexualized. It feels like it's talked about everywhere. I feel ever so sorry sometimes for famous people because their lives are plastered across social media around this topic. And it can almost feel like you're bombarded. So I think it's a great encouragement for us that we can bring this area of our lives to God and He cares very much about it.

John: In discipleship and mentoring, I've often said, in a moment of temptation it's a really powerful prayer to say, "Jesus, I am feeling tempted. Holy Spirit, would you come and comfort me?" Because so often, those drivers that lead us into behaviour that we don't want to have, are a form of trying to meet our own needs and to comfort ourselves, but the Holy Spirit has already promised to comfort us.

Rach: Wonderful. Wonderful. That's fantastic. And such an encouragement and a help. I love having that example of how to pray because you can't always find the words, can you? So that's brilliant.

What If I Have Been A Victim Of Harmful Actions In The Area Of Sex?

Rach: Okay, so this is a big question. Obviously, we haven't got ages to go into it, but what if we've had experiences in our lives that haven't been good in this area? What if things have been done to us that weren't right in this whole area of sex? What if we've done something and now we look back and regret it? Can God make a difference for us there? I know in your talk Kirsten, you said to seek out professional help. So you have addressed this party already, but you might be feeling like as we're talking, that you need to maybe talk to someone too. So, is God interested in those parts of our lives that we might feel ashamed about?

Kirsten: Yeah, I mean, at the beginning, Rach, you said about safeguarding, and this isn't the space to put intimate details in the chat or anything like that because then it's just out there. Before we sat down today to join the livestream we talked about what we'd be prepared to talk about because it's private and it's personal. And it's not for everyone to know about that aspect of your life. So I think in the talk I mentioned the idea of professional help. It's not a case of sharing with everyone the things that you struggle with, or the way you've been hurt in the past. Find professional help. Someone that you can speak to, to talk about those issues, so that you can move through them. But certainly yeah, it's a case of it shouldn't be pushed aside and not dealt with. These are important aspect of people's lives. God cares about us as individuals, and he wants to help us be whole.

John: And the truth is, we are Bible-believing people and the Bible clearly says there's no sin that Jesus can't forgive. We could go into the blaspheming of the Holy Spirit, but that's simply a rejection of Jesus's ability to forgive. So I think anything that we bring to Jesus we can receive forgiveness for, and and I'm talking more in terms of things that we have done, where we have broken boundaries as opposed to what have been done to us. I believe there's healing and that may take a journey, and there may be layers to that healing. And we know people who've been walking into that healing. That's their testimony, their story. But also, forgiveness. And this is who our God is. We do make mistakes. Someone once said to me, "be a good failure, be good at failing". If you do fall into sin, then don't wallow in it for days, weeks and months, separating yourself from God. Bring it to God, say to Him, look, I've done this and and I ask for your forgiveness and I ask for your cleansing. And then forward from that, knowing that when we confess it, it's 1 John 1:9, "when we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness". And so receive that. And that's a really powerful way to live. And whenever it comes up in our mind, all of us will have things where it pops up in our mind about, oh, that thing that I did 30 years ago or whatever. And then God's like, what thing? I forgave that thing. And I forgot it. And it's as far as east is from the west from me. And that's why, what we're talking about here is immensely good news. That we can know God's healing and forgiveness.

Rach: Yeah. Wonderful. And you've just quoted one of my favourite verses ever. As far as the east is from the west, because you can't get much further apart, can you? From the east to the west. They couldn't be more polar opposite could they? So God is saying, that's how far it's gone. I know for my life, I've been really blessed being part of a church where there are particular people that are really gifted in helping to bring God's truth into a situation where there might be a lot of shame, or guilt or upset, equally, professional help as well. I'm all for that. I just think there are people that have trained in the area of recovery for people that can be really, really helpful.

John: We would say in our church context, we have safeguarding parameters in place for prayer ministry. We're just aware this is going out, and people watch this in all sorts of places and all sorts of contexts. We're just aware there have been times where people have shared sexual experiences, even within a church context. That has then been used by others to abuse. So that's why I think Kirsten was really stressing the professional thing. We totally believe in the power of prayer, and the power of ministry. But I'd encourage people to receive that in places that have those policies and procedures in place.

Rach: It's like that sense of transparency and openness in the right way for the person so they feel safe. Sometimes we have to say, "no, it's right for a professional to be involved with that person". So that's wonderful.

What Are Love Languages?

Rach: Okay, one last question. Before we finish, you spoke about love languages. So I know what they are. But not everyone does. And how can we find out more?

John: I think you can actually just Google love languages. I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote the book.

Rach: It's Gary Chapman.

John: Yeah, and it's like, we tend to want to show love to someone in the way we like to receive it. So I know for Kirsten, the way that she likes to receive love, is through acts of kindness. That's one of the five love languages and through words of affirmation. So it's really important that I express love to her in a way that she experiences love and vice versa.

And you know, when we both used to teach sex education, one of the questions that would come up quite often is, sex before marriage is important because you've got to find compatibility. How do you know you've got that Hollywood spark until you've tried it? And we think, no, actually that's not what it's about. It's about committing first to create a safety which actually says I am utterly committed to you, irrespective of what sex is like for us. Now let's serve one another, to find a way of pleasing one another and expressing love to one another. It's about intimacy more than intensity. And I think that's God's pattern. That's where I think love languages feed into. It's not about what I want.

Kirsten also said about, you can't look to the other person to meet your needs but we're called to serve one another as best as we can to meet that person's need. That's true with all of life, so it's got to be true of sex as well.

Rach: Yeah, totally. I love that. You can do a really simple online test, but it can apply to every single type of relationship. So whether it's for your friendships, parenting, bringing it into your marriage, it's a level of understanding, about what works for that person isn't it? So if you've got a child that responds well to healthy cuddles, then work with the ways that will build them up, or a child that responds to words of affirmation. It can apply to all the relational parts of your life, can't it?

Kirsten: Absolutely, I think there's five love languages. And I wouldn't want to shoot myself in the foot and say, I only have one because I think gifts is in there, which is always a good one, even though it's not my main love language.

John: Interestingly, it's more to do with where they're absent for us. For me, it's quality time and for Kirsten, she is very happy for me not to be around. I can be around too much. So it's about trying to find a balance that serves one another and meets one another's needs.

Rach: And again, I wonder if when we bring it back to marriage and intimacy, if you're working on those bits as well, then it really helps your level of understanding of each other, doesn't it?

What Does It Look Like To Honor God In Your Sex Life?

John: You can't see the Bible as just this list of rules, this lists of dos, do nots. It's about God's pattern for thriving in life. And that's why people get so hung up on, you know, people want a sex talk about six things you're not allowed to do in sex and marriage, and six things that you are allowed to do. But really, if you put the work in for intimacy and communication, and if you take that deeper underpinning narrative of the Bible, of love expressed in service and intimacy, which is the definition of love, then those sorts of questions become far less relevant than the sorts of things that you can navigate together as a couple. The answer we might come up with might not be the answer that another couple have come up with, but they're within those boundaries that God puts in place.

Rach: Yeah. I feel like we could just go on and on. But thank you because I think what's coming across clearly is the supportive and the caring that goes alongside us talking about a topic around sex, and what God wants, and what is best and if we've experienced something that we would say was not the best for me, God is still committed to us and cares about us enough that he can bring healing and restoration into our lives as well. I love it.

Bible Verses about Sex

1 Corinthians 7:3-4 - The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband. The wife's body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. IN the same way, the husband's body does not belong to him alone but also to his wife.

Hebrews 13:4 - Marriage should be honoured by all, and the marriage bed kept pure.

Genesis 1:28 - And God blessed them. And God said to then, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 - Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body's a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 1:26-27 - Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Matthew 5:28 - "But I say: Anyone who even looks at a woman with lust in his eye has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

Proverbs 5:18-19 - Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Song of Songs 7:6-9 - How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights! Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit. I said, I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit. May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 - For God wants you to be holy and pure and to keep clear of all sexual sin so that each of you will marry in holiness and honor - not in lustful passion as the heathen so, in their ignorance of God and his ways.

Exodus 20:14 - Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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