Bible Question: Is it right for a single christian female and a single christian male to spend the weekends together in one apartment and if it is wrong what scripture is there to back that answer up. |
Bible Answer: KMG: Your question still lacks specificity. Since you show apparent reluctance to being specific, I'll risk being presumptuous by asking you whether you are alluding to having intimate sexual relations outside of marriage? If that's it, it's wrong. It's among the carnal sins that the Bible calls sexual immorality or fornication. You asked for Scripture and here's some: Read Acts 15:20; Romans 1:28-32; 1 Corinthians 6:13,18 and 7:2; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Gal. 5:19; Eph. 5:3; Col. 3:5; 1 Thess. 4:3. ..... When a single female and a single male spend week-ends together in the privacy of an apartment, it is possible, I suppose, that no intimacy will occur -- but is it likely? And is it prudent and wise for a Christian man and woman to expose themselves to this sort of temptation? Even if no immoral conduct is involved, does this not open up the possibility of diluting your witness to others? Review the words about temption in the prayer the Lord taught His disciples in Matthew 6, the prayer commonly called the Lord's Prayer. If you are looking for scriptural sanction for your behavior, you will not find it. --Hank |