Expert: George A. Card,sfo, M.I - 2/21/2004

Question
Can you tell me where in the bible Jesus said that two single consenting adults should be married before they have sex?

And, did Jesus have sex with Mary Magdalene?

Answer
                       Shalom

Dear Jean,

       Nowhere does Christ explictly condemn the practice of "two single consenting adults" having sex BEFORE they are married,but He did say it  came from same place as evil thoughts.I now will share some words from Scripture you might consider as a light to help you to see better about the question you asked then i will share a closing thoughts:
 I will use the KJV so its clearer in some verses

Matthew 15
19   For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies

Mark 7
21   For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,


Acts 15
20   But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15
29   That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.


Acts 21
25   As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.


1 Corinthians 6
9   Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,


1 Corinthians 6
18   Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.


1 Thessalonians 4
3   For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Revelation 2
14   But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.


Revelation 2
20   Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.


There several other verses else in the NT as well as some in the OT. In closing ask you to read a passage that very dear to me (I timothy 4:6-16)


                  Your Servant But His First
                        george/ravJerome72