I'm a christian my husband (and I use that title loosely as we are not actually married but have been together for nearly 8 years and people just assume we are) is not. He is very against the church and while he has tolerated my attendance for awhile he now says I have to choose. I think if it were just church attendance we could find a compromise but last night he issued an ultimatum that I either stop going to church, quit reading my bible, and stop exerting any christian influence over our kids( no bible stories or even christian music on regardless of his being present or not.) So the choice is abandon all practice of faith or loose him and my kids. I know the scriptures that say if you love your family more than me you are not worthy of me and that he did not come to bring peace but a sword. I know I cannot choose to deny God. But how do you explain choosing God first to someone who doesn't accept that he even exist.
I regret your pain, Nikki. But I think the Lord is helping you in this situation. The matter of fornication is rather simple. Sex outside of marriage is a serious sin.
No marriage? Then no sex.
And even if you were married, when an unbeliever leaves a believer, the believer is not bound. (1 Cor 7).
The Word of God is clear on the seriousness of fornication as a sin. Fornication is an intolerable sin. Persisting in fornication is a sign that a person is not saved, but heading to the Lake of Fire.
5:9 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; 10 not at all meaning with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: 11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.
6:9 Or 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 men,
5:5 For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
1:10 for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
13:4 Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
15:19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
15:20 but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication,
15:29 that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.
21:25 But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.
5:1 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father’s wife.
6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:
6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
7:2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
12:21 lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.
5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
5:3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
3:5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
12:16 lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.
7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
2:14 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
2:20 But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.
9:21 and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
21:8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
22:15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.