shacking up
What does the Bible say about shacking up? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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9But if they cannot restrain themselves, they should marry. For it is better to marry, than to be burned.
4May marriage be honorable in every way, and may the marriage bed be immaculate. For God will judge fornicators and adulterers.
2But, because of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
24For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.
2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
18Flee from fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man commits is outside of the body, but whoever fornicates, sins against his own body.
25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the Church and handed himself over for her,
8But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all liars, these shall be a part of the pool burning with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
22Abstain from every kind of evil.
14Instead, be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh in its desires.
5“For this reason, a man shall separate from father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife, and these two shall become one flesh.
9But be careful not to let your liberty become a cause of sin to those who are weak.
9Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, 10nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God.
17The woman responded and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her: “You have spoken well, in saying, ‘I have no husband.’ 18For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth.”
10But to those who have been joined in matrimony, it is not I who commands you, but the Lord: a wife is not to separate from her husband. 11But if she has separated from him, she must remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband should not divorce his wife.