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

    [4] Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, [5] doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; [6] doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [7] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

  • Hebrews 13:4

    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

    [14] Don't be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what communion has light with darkness? [15] What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what portion has a believer with an unbeliever?

  • Genesis 2:24

    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

    [1] Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers; [2] the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

  • Genesis 2:18

    Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

  • 1 Corinthians 15:33

    Don't be deceived! "Evil companionships corrupt good morals."

  • 1 Corinthians 6:18

    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

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

  • Romans 12:9-10

    [9] Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good. [10] In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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