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  • “Let Marriage Be Honorable Among All”
    The Watchtower—1993 | February 15
    • 5. (a) What is God’s position on adultery? (b) What is covered by the Bible’s use of the word “fornication”?

      5 God’s standards have not changed. It is his position that cohabiting without the benefit of marriage is living in fornication.

  • “Let Marriage Be Honorable Among All”
    The Watchtower—1993 | February 15
    • a “‘Fornication’ in the broad sense, and as used at Matthew 5:32 and 19:9, evidently refers to a broad range of unlawful or illicit sex relations outside marriage. Porneia [the Greek word used in those texts] involves the grossly immoral use of the genital organ(s) of at least one human (whether in a natural or a perverted way); also, there must have been another party to the immorality​—a human of either sex, or a beast.” (The Watchtower, March 15, 1983, page 30)

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