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What does the Bible say about opposite sex?

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The Bible teaches that men and women are created by God as distinct sexes and are called to relate to one another with honor, purity, self-control, and covenant faithfulness in marriage. Genesis 2:24 presents marriage as the lifelong union of one man and one woman, and 1 Corinthians 7:2 directs sexual desire toward marital faithfulness rather than immorality. Scripture forbids sexual sin, including acts outside God’s design for marriage, and calls believers to flee immorality because their bodies belong to the Lord (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, 18). Love is not selfish or lustful but patient, kind, and holy (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). God also provides grace and a way to endure temptation (1 Corinthians 10:13).

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  • Leviticus 20:13 10 votes

    If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:18 10 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.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 8 votes

    [9] Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, [10] nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

  • 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 7 votes

    [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.

  • Deuteronomy 22:5 6 votes

    A woman shall not wear men's clothing, neither shall a man put on women's clothing; for whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:2 6 votes

    But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • Genesis 2:24 5 votes

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

  • 1 Corinthians 10:13 5 votes

    No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

  • Leviticus 18:22 3 votes

    "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestible.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:13 3 votes

    "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

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