What does the Bible say about dating age?

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The Bible gives no specific dating age, but it calls believers to pursue relationships with purity, wisdom, self-control, and honorable intentions toward marriage. Genesis 2:18 and 2:24 present marriage as God’s good design for companionship and covenantal union. Those considering dating should show the patient, selfless love described in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, treat one another as brothers and sisters in purity as 1 Timothy 5:1-2 teaches, and avoid relationships that draw them away from faith, according to 2 Corinthians 6:14-15. Hebrews 13:4 calls God’s people to honor marriage, while 1 Corinthians 6:18 warns against sexual immorality. Parents, church community, maturity, and a desire to glorify Christ should guide such decisions.

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  • 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 5 votes

    Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

  • Hebrews 13:4 4 votes

    Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

  • 2 Corinthians 6:14-15 4 votes

    Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship do righteousness and iniquity have? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness? What agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what portion does a believer have with an unbeliever?

  • Genesis 2:24 4 votes

    Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

  • 1 Timothy 5:1-2 3 votes

    Don’t rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

  • Genesis 2:18 3 votes

    Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

  • 1 Corinthians 15:33 3 votes

    Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

  • 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.

  • John 3:16 2 votes

    For God so loved the world, that he gave his only born Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

  • Romans 12:9-10 2 votes

    Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor prefer one another,

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