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* Clear conscience with [[God]] through the absence of [[sin]].
 
* Clear conscience with [[God]] through the absence of [[sin]].
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* Peace of mind in your life and future relationships, and marriage.
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* Peace of mind in one's life, future relationships, and marriage.
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* More self-respect and more respect for each others and respected by other people.
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* More self-respect, respect for others, and respected from other people.
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* Always remember, in a healthy relationship, respect precedes love, and premarital sex only throws away your self respect and your partner's.
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* Respect precedes love in a healthy relationship, while premarital sex throws away self-respect and the respect of the partner.
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* You enter marriage with a more positive outlook and without carrying emotional baggage.
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* Entering marriage with a more positive outlook and without emotional baggage.
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* Personal freedom for both of you and your (future) marriage partner.
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* Personal freedom for both (future) marriage partners.
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* Significantly better chance in having more satisfying and more stable marriage.
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* Significantly better chance of a satisfying and stable marriage.
    
* Longer lasting relationship. Premarital sex breaks up more dating couples than any other factor.
 
* Longer lasting relationship. Premarital sex breaks up more dating couples than any other factor.
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* No comparing or being compared sexually in marriage. It also means "being free to enjoy maximum sex, maximum leisure, maximum satisfaction, and maximum liberty, in the way God intended" that is in the covenant of marriage.
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* No sexual comparisons in marriage. The covenant of marriage entails "being free to enjoy maximum sex, maximum leisure, maximum satisfaction, and maximum liberty, in the way God intended."
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* No worries about pregnancy and STDs.  
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* No worries about pregnancy.
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* Less worries about bad reputation.
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* No worries about [[Sexually Transmitted Diseases]].
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* It's a fact<ref>http://www.ejhs.org/volume10/AZFchap1.htm</ref> that persons and couples who have premarital sex are more likely to have [[adulterous]] affairs as well.
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* No worries about bad reputation.
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* Premarital sex often fools a person into marrying someone who really isn't right for them.
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* Persons and couples who have premarital sex are more likely to have affairs and commit [[adultry]].<ref>http://www.ejhs.org/volume10/AZFchap1.htm</ref>
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* You don't have to put yourself under someone else's mercy not to reject you. It's still a fact, that the more "experienced" guys and girls are generally less desirable and less respected as dating or marriage partners.
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* Premarital sex often fools a person into marrying someone who really is not right for them.
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* Realize there is a 98 percent chance you will never marry the person you date in high school, so it is always better to keep yourself [[Purity|pure]] for the right person, that is your future wife or husband. <ref>[http://www.premaritalsex.info/ Sexual Purity]</ref>
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* No fears of rejection and reliance on another's mercy to keep the relationship going. More "experienced" individuals are generally less desirable and less respected as dating or marriage partners.
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* There is a 98 percent chance that couples who meet in high school will not marry, so it is always better to maintain [[purity]] for the right person, the future wife or husband. <ref>[http://www.premaritalsex.info/ Sexual Purity]</ref>
    
==See Also==
 
==See Also==
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