1Cor 7:1,2 Sex - good or bad?

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Sex - good or bad?

1Cor 7:1,2 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good for a man not to marry. But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

"marry" is more literally "touch a woman", referring to sexual intercourse. This is the subject in question. It is not exclusively talking about whether a man should get married, but more generally whether sex is a good thing. This will become clear in the verses which follow. It is good to abstain from sex, but not at the cost of committing sexual immorality. On this basis what he says from verses 2-9 logically follows.

To refuse a spouse sex may lead them to sexual immorality and as such one is guilty for doing do. In fact Jesus said, "Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!" Mt 18:7 So don't be a cause for your spouse to fall into sin. For example it says, "I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress" Mt 5:32a Don't be the cause of someone else committing adultery.

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