Sexual Bonding

Created Date: 19-Dec-2025
1 Corinthians 6:16

Last updated: 19-Dec-2025
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Sexual bonding in the scriptures is often a quick axiom statement without much explanation.  This is unfortunately and most likely caused by lack of understanding of the reasons, implications, and consequences.   This topic is primarily for the Christian who recognizes:
  1. Our commitment to God through Jesus Christ,
  2. Our sinful nature,
  3. Sowing and reaping in our lives, and
  4. Hurting people, that includes ourselves

because of sexual sins.

The well-known scriptural passage of 1 Corinthians 6:16 should
 

1 Corinthians 6:12-20 12 “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything. 13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead, and he will raise us also. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[b] 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[c]

18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body. 19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.

God has designed all of us to bond with one-another when having sexual intimacy!  The proof is the remembrance, as we age, on the first sexual experiences with even someone that we did continue in a relationship.  Some of the implications are varied by commonly:

There should not be a requirement to deeply explain the precious, purity, and emotional results of sexual intimacy with your spouse and others outside of the commitment of marriage.  As a preparatory analysis with details see the topics:

  1. Dating
  2. Marriages and the Roles Responsibilities
  3. Wives Sexual Responsibility
  4. Sexual intimacy
  5. Absolutely Staying Physically Fit and Attractive
  6. Sixty Years Love Story
The following is an excerpt from the Adultery topic:

If you have any memorable, souvenirs, gifts, photos, linked social media accounts, email / phone contact information with or from the other person you were having an affair with, then the items must be thrown away and deleted immediately, as they are satanic links to the memory and much more.  There are additionally the biological aspects to have God heal and remove. 
(a) 1 Corinthians 6:16 is informing us that even if someone is just using someone else for sex, like a prostitute where there was no intent on a relationship, now has a link or bond with that person in the spirit and in the flesh.
(b) There is biological evidence that confirms physical bonding with two people because of sex through hormones, neurohormones, oxytocin and vasopressin.  Women are more vulnerable in the biological bonding as the same type of bonding hormones are released by the body during childbirth and nursing which stimulates increased bonding with a baby.  The baby, just like the man, will be affected also in bonding.
(c) A person has a choice in life to have links to Godly things through the Holy Spirit or have negative links through the Satanic Realm.  All links to adultery need to be eliminated so that the adulterous relationship can be completely cleansed.  If required, get a new mobile phone number, email address, block phone numbers and social media accounts.
(d) In a covenant relationship, God gives a blessed linkage that goes way past the physical into the spiritual facet of our existence.  Links with another adulterer and even pornography, have the potential to harm or even destroy this gift linkage that God gives in a covenant relationship.

1 Corinthians 6:16 Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, The two will become one flesh.

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