The sin of refusing sex
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I didn't see where the OP said anything about demanding sex against the wishes of their partner. In fact he didn't mention his wife at all. So let's not make assumptions. Secondly the Bible says your body is not your own, and the verse the OP shared says not to forbid one another sex. If you have a healthy marriage, you are having sex. To say the husband may have sinned is an excuse. If you are refusing sex, no matter which spouse, unless there is a specific reason you are going against what Scripture says. A lot of women complain about porn, but don't want to look into these issues more deeply but sweep them under the rug. On the other side of the coin a couple can have a great sex life together, and still have a failing marriage.
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You're making way too many assumptions here. There are marriages where the husband doesn't want sex. You're making the assumption it's only women. No one is stomping their feet, when you married you made a covenant to give yourself to your spouse and he did the same. Your body is not your own, either of you. If you don't want adultery and other issues to creep in you had better realize your bodies belong to each other and using sex as a weapon is un- Biblical.
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You're making way too many assumptions here. There are marriages where the husband doesn't want sex. You're making the assumption it's only women. No one is stomping their feet, when you married you made a covenant to give yourself to your spouse and he did the same. Your body is not your own, either of you. If you don't want adultery and other issues to creep in you had better realize your bodies belong to each other and using sex as a weapon is un- Biblical.
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Yes it is covered in Scripture, and yet look at the responses. Several are not Biblical. Why would you move on when it is an important issue and causes many marriages to fail? If you don't wish to discuss it, why don't you move on? Not trying to be rude, but I think your response is a little rude.
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Biblical married sex is like GLUE......
That's all I'm going to say on the topic right now (and I think the married folk reading will get this, while the unmarried are going
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That's all I'm going to say on the topic right now (and I think the married folk reading will get this, while the unmarried are going
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This is a topic that makes me uncomfortable to post about being single and not ever married but when I read this verse this is where I have gone in my thoughts in the last year. That was the only thing I was going to post in this thread but didn't want to lol. Well using both versus in tandem.
Although I do think that self-control should be practiced as that also is scriptural, but what that is for each person is different.
but I definitely agree on that weapon/manipulation point.
Although I do think that self-control should be practiced as that also is scriptural, but what that is for each person is different.
but I definitely agree on that weapon/manipulation point.
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If it's not about sex, then why does your mind go to not having an affair.
Look at the context. Marriage instead of fornication. Not having power over one's own body.
I Corinthians 7
Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. 7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
(NKJV)
Look at the context. Marriage instead of fornication. Not having power over one's own body.
I Corinthians 7
Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me:
It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment. 7 For I wish that all men were even as I myself. But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.
(NKJV)
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Bad stuff can happen to people in life. If I were young, single, and had no sexual desire, I think I'd go the celibacy route. Older folks can have health issues as their bodies eventually wind down that can affect sex drive. That's understandable. We can only do what we are able to do.
If I had a health problem like that, though, and my wife had needs, I'd be praying for healing and looking into what I could do to improve the situation.
If I had a health problem like that, though, and my wife had needs, I'd be praying for healing and looking into what I could do to improve the situation.
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