5 Types of Sex to Avoid at All Cost

Not every sexual relationship is harmless. The Bible gives us clear boundaries about sexual behaviour. Here are five forms of sex you should never normalize.

1. Premarital Sex (Fornication)

1 Corinthians 6:18¹ & 1 Thessalonians 4:3² teach that Sex outside the marriage covenant is called fornication. The scriptures forbid sex outside marriage because God’s design for sexual intimacy is within the covenant of marriage. Don’t seek nor give marriage privileges before entering the marriage covenant.

2. Extra-Marital Sex (Adultery)

Exodus 20:14³; Hebrews 13:4⁴ teach that sexual involvement with someone other than your spouse is not just unhealthy but wrong. This is because it violates the marriage covenant, destroys trust, and can devastate families. What begins as a secret can become a wound that affects generations.

3. Perverted or Ungodly Sexual Practices

Romans 1:24–27⁵; Ephesians 5:3–5⁶ reveal that perverted sexual practices dishonour both the body and God. These perverted practices include but are not limited to homosexuality, lesbianism, orgies, threesomes, prostitution, hook up etc. Sexual desire must not become an excuse to practice whatever the flesh desires. There are practices that Scripture describes as dishonourable or contrary to God’s design. Not everything that is possible sexually is therefore permissible biblically.

4. Incestuous Sex

Kindly find time to read Leviticus 18:6–18⁷; 1 Corinthians 5:1⁸; and discover that sexual relations between people who are prohibited from marrying because of close family relationships are expressly condemned in Scripture.

It violates God-given family boundaries and can cause profound damage to families and individuals. Some boundaries exist because they are sacred.

5. Bestiality

In Leviticus 18:23⁹; Exodus 22:19¹⁰ explicitly condemns sexual activity involving animals. It violates the distinction God established between human sexuality and the animal kingdom.

God’s boundaries are not designed to restrict life; they are designed to protect what He created.

The world says, ‘If both people agree, anything goes.’ But the Christian doesn’t ask only, ‘Can I do it?’ We ask, ‘Does God approve it?’ Your body belongs to God. Your sexuality is not outside His authority.

1 Corinthians 6:18–20¹¹ commands us to “Flee fornication… ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.”

Agree that SEXUAL FREEDOM WITHOUT BIBLICAL BOUNDARIES CAN BECOME DESTRUCTION. God’s Word doesn’t merely tell us what to avoid; it teaches us how to honour God with our bodies.

• Flee what God says to flee.
• Honour what God calls holy.
• Protect what God has entrusted to you.

Referenced Scriptures

1. 1 Corinthians 6:18 (KJV): Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. ↩︎
2. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 (KJV): For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ↩︎
3. Exodus 20:14 (KJV): Thou shalt not commit adultery. ↩︎
4. Hebrews 13:4 (KJV): Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. ↩︎
5. Romans 1:24-27 (KJV): Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. ↩︎
6. Ephesians 5:3-5 (KJV): But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ↩︎
7. Leviticus 18:6–18 (KJV): 6 None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD. 7 The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 8 The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness. 9 The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover. 10 The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness. 11 The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 12 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman. 13 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman. 14 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt. 15 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness. 16 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness. 17 Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness. 18 Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time. ↩︎
8. 1 Corinthians 5:1 (KJV): 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. ↩︎
9. Leviticus 18:23 (KJV): Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion. ↩︎
10. Exodus 22:19 (KJV): Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. ↩︎
11. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 (KJV): Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. ↩︎