For live-in relationships or marriage before kids...?
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that's for me to know & you to wonder....however, answer to question 1:\n\n\n2 Chronicles 21:11  Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.\n\nIsaiah 23:17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.\n\nEzekiel 16:26  Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.\n\nEzekiel 16:29  Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith.\n\nMatthew 5:32  But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.\n\nMatthew 19:9  And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.\n\nJohn 8:41  Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.\n\nActs 15:20  But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.\n\nActs 15:29  That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.\n\nActs 21:25  As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.\n\nRomans 1:29  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,\n\n1 Corinthians 5:1  It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:13  Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:18  Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.\n\n1 Corinthians 7:2  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.\n\n1 Corinthians 10:8  Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.\n\n2 Corinthians 12:21  And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.\n\nGalatians 5:19  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,\n\nEphesians 5:3  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;\n\nColossians 3:5  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:\n\n1 Thessalonians 4:3  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:\n\nJude 1:7  Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.\n\nRevelation 2:14  But I have a few things against thee, because thou
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I think it is. I think we are supposed to get married and have a family. We then find what true love is. When you have kids its something unlike anything else and to me the marriage comes before the kids so without that....you don't get the honor. You don't get to know what it feels like. I believe that there is someone for everyone and God will put this person in front of you when you least expect it and you will know this is the one.
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I don't agree....some relationships just aren't meant to be, it has nothing to do with moving in with each other before marriage. I honestly think living together before marriage is a good thing because you get to know the person and figure out if you are going to work out. It better than running off to Vegas getting married in t-shirt and jeans to someone you barely know. Marriage is sacred, it should not be rushed.
369566
Having sex before marriage!
61407
It depends on the couple. With some the anticipation can make the life after marriage more exciting. With others it is a good way to see some of the road bumps that could develop. SOmetimes it is dangerous though because it is easier to leave a relationship before marriage so little things that could cause arguments in a marriage could be the death sentance to a pre marriage relationship. The couple shoud talk about the risks and rewards and then make the best educated decision they can.
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Sounds very selfish. Someone who would do that doesnt care about providing the optimal home enviorment for the child. There is obvisouly no commitment between the parents. My question is What is the reasoning for not getting married? So if things don't work out one of them can walk away? What kind of lessons are you teaching that child. Can one person raise a child? Yes, Would two people be better? Yes, Would two people who are in a legaly binding commitment be better than that? Yes, Would a Mother and a Father in a legally binding commited marrige be better that that? YES!! Why would you want anything less than the best for your child? Where have standards gone??
506876
My boyfriend and I are both divorced, and we're both a little marriage shy, so I totally understand your problem.  I want to know why 2 years is such a long time before you get married?  Most marriages are dissolved after a couple years because the people didn't know each other, I hear constantly "Well, we got married and I found out......"  That is not how marriage should be.  If you are going to spend the rest of your life with a person, you should know them in and out beforehand.  I'm a firm beleiver in living together before marriage.  Try that for a year or so, if you guys are still madly in love then you can START talking about marriage.
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AFTER you get married.  Life gets way too complicated if you do it before marriage.  It saves you from a lot of heart ache too.  You and your spouse will be glad you waited, then you won't have to worry about diseases, pre marital pregnancy, past lovers, etc.
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Ideally children should be born in marriage but marriage does not guarantee a perfect home or perfect children nor does a child out of wedlock mean that the child is condemned to a life of misery. I know some married couples that have more trouble in their home and relationships than some unmarried couples that just shack up. My sister and her boyfriend were together 15 years before he passed away and they had 4 children and never married and her children never knew they were not legally married. Then I see people who get married and have kids and divorce 4 or 5 years later. The most important thing is that a child has a HAPPY home.
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I am going to live with my boyfriend soon. And I would not want to be married before having lived together for at least a couple of years.\nBut hmm 14 years, that is a long time. Maybe he is just one of those millions of people that does not value the institute of marriage.
139571
Yes, you should wait until you are married.
954792
According to today's moral standards many people think it's not necessary to be married when having children. But I disagree. A marriage means stability. It means commitment between two people. If they really love each other it should not be a problem to be married. My personal opinion is that couples who don't want to get married are just not that into each other and should therefore not have children.
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im also planning when i should get married at the moment,\nmy plan is to get married when im 30, have a romantic time for 2 years with my wife.  Then 2 years later, i will make my first baby with my wife.  im still thinking what should my boy called....can someone help me??\n\nim currently 15 yrs old studying at high school
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After twenty-five, but definitely before forty.\n\nAlso wait at least two years after you get married to have the kids.That way you and your spouse have time to have some fun before hunkering down.
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Do they want kids? How are you going to handle finaces? Do they have any doubts about you two? No stds! How far would they go to stay together (counsling, etc.) What are their goals and carear plans. The rest you should know before you think of marriage
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Personally I think you should have sex before marriage and live with the person. Marriage is forever you need to know if you can stand that person and their ways, all their ways. Now my religion says another but I listen to my instinct first.
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I think it's a personal question that has to be addressed individually. It depends on what is important to you. If you have an absolute need to know what the other person is like every day, all the time, then perhaps you should. Or if you believe in love and what a commitment to marriage means, then take the faith that you love this person no matter what their personal habits. You can get to know a person's character without living with them, but again, it's up to you and them. As for strengthening a relationship, more studies show that it doesn't, but everybody's different. You also have to think about your potential kids and what kind of an example would you want to set for them? Years down the road what are you going to want to be able to say to them about moving in with their partners? That usually will reflect what is in your own heart and you should listen to that.