Behind every negative command are positive principles for our delight.

In the early days of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Prophet Joseph Smith prophesied that members of the Church “would receive more temptations, be more buffeted, and have greater difficulty” with sexual immorality than with any other single challenge (Brigham Young, 1860). The so-called sexual revolution that started in the 1960s continues to impact society.

Unfortunately, many parents, school officials, and government leaders seem less concerned with the immorality of premarital sexual behavior than with the social ills that often come with it—teen pregnancies, abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Although these are very serious and damaging ramifications of a sexually permissive society, there are yet other sobering consequences, such as the negative influence early premarital sexual activity has on the ability to form long-term relationships later in life (Mc Ilhaney & Bush, 2008).

It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; Introduction God’s standards regarding sin are high in action, thought and attitude.

He calls for holiness, which includes sexual relations.