What does the Bible say about dating a married man?
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The Bible forbids romantic or sexual involvement with a married person, calling believers to honor marriage, flee adultery, and pursue holiness and repentance. Hebrews 13:4 teaches that marriage is to be held in honor and that God judges sexual immorality and adultery. Jesus says that lustful intent is sinful before God, not merely outward acts (Matthew 5:28). Marriage joins husband and wife in a covenantal one-flesh union (Genesis 2:24), and Scripture condemns divorce and remarriage that violate that covenant (Luke 16:18). Christians should therefore end such a relationship, seek forgiveness through Christ, establish wise boundaries, and pursue relationships marked by faithfulness and obedience.
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- Hebrews 13:4 6 votes
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33 4 votes
Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”
- 1 Corinthians 7:2 4 votes
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
- Matthew 5:28 3 votes
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
- Genesis 2:24 3 votes
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
- Luke 16:18 3 votes
“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
- Malachi 2:16 3 votes
One who hates and divorces”, says Yahweh, the God of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahweh of Armies. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful.
- 1 Corinthians 6:18 3 votes
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
- Ephesians 5:33 2 votes
Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 2 votes
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
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