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I Corinthians 7

² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.¹

Verse 2 in the Greek uses the word “fornication” in the plural form: fornications. Therefore, in a broad sense, it would imply that a person may need to escape evil inclinations of any type of sexual immorality, not mere fornication in the sense of an unchaste woman attempting folly so as to marry a man. Or on the other hand, perhaps it may also imply that there were many deeds of immorality which had already taken place, including unlawful marriages with an unchaste woman.

After a couple have sex and complete the physical part of the marriage bond (Ex. 22, Dt. 22) but the female is not accepted by the male or vice versa, then, when the female departs and has sex with another man than the first, it is an act of fornication. So, to avoid this condemned (Gal. 5:19) predicament, a man should take a female virgin he has either chosen, seduced or raped for his wife. If he doesn't marry her, he leaves her in a condition that she can't legitimately marry anyone else. Many such women become prostitutes or victims of illegitimate cultural marriages.

Fornication in this sense is different than adultery whereas an adulteress commits a sexual sin with another man after the marriage bond is completed sexually and the man agreeably marries her. Nevertheless the subject of this verse is fornication. Joseph was going to put away (Mt. 1:19) Mary, the mother of Jesus, when he realized she was pregnant. He thought someone else had committed a sexual sin with his bride-to-be. However, after his meeting the angel and being convicted otherwise, he changed his mind.

There are misled people in our day of apostasy teaching others that fornication can be overlooked and the woman of fornication can marry anyway without the condemnation of God, but that is not true. God demanded the wife to be a virgin, a clean marriage during the first law (Ex. 22), the second law (Dt. 22) and the fulfillment of the law era, the New Testament era, which we live in today. Although, Moses allowed remarriages of women found unclean (Dt. 24), but those women were not as the clean, women who could not be divorced in Dt. 22. Regardless, Jesus reproved this situation.

So, going through different law eras, we've seen how defilement has worked through fornication and folly was given the death penalty in the Old Testament and required at least annulment or divorce (Mt. 19:9) in the New Testament. We can easily see that if every man has his own wife, a clean woman, not of fornication or adultery, and every woman her own husband, a man not obligated to any former virgins, that marriage can be pure like the first one of Adam and Eve.

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¹The Holy Bible: King James Version. (1995). (electronic ed. of the 1769 edition of the 1611 Authorized Version., 1 Co 7:2). Bellingham WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.