TRUE LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships are not totally discouraged but should exist only among people that are matured enough and understands what it really means. It should be done based on God’s standard in
1 cor 13:4-8 and anything outside that makes relationships a sin. The bible made us to understand that anything that will make you to sin, pluck it out. If your relationship with that boy or girl will make you to sin then end it immediately matt 5:29-30. Relationships should also be backed up with prayers if it is going to lead to marriage.

TRUE LOVE

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
—I Corinthians 13:4-8a (NIV)This verse describes the characteristics of true love. These qualities can certainly be found in the person of Jesus Christ, and they can be found in all truly loving relationships. The problem with trying to “find” love in our dating lives is that too often we don't look for these characteristics in 1 cor 13:4-8a. Rather we look at physical appearance, popularity, or wealth. These are not the qualities that God looks at and neither should we.
But the LORD said to Samuel, “…The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
—I Samuel 16:7b (NIV) Love is best seen as devotion, commitment and action, not an emotion or infatuation. Love is not exclusively based on how we feel. Certainly our emotions are involved, but they cannot be our only criteria for love. True devotion will always lead to true love.
Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with ACTIONS and in truth.
I John 3:18 (NIV)

Christ was devoted to us enough to give his own life for us (Romans 5:, even when he didn't feel like it (Matthew 26:39).
Sex is not love! Our worldly culture has taught us that sex and love are one and are same. This is a lie. Sex is a beautiful God-given activity that is wonderful when practiced within the boundaries of a Biblical marriage. Any relationship between the unmarried that urges for sex is simply a lust, and it is a sin. Sex should even not be thought let alone being practiced. Matt 5:27-28 .


PRE-MARITAL SEX
Sex is an activity that brings forth life, and also an activity that destroys lifes and destiny when practiced outside of the will of God. Because premarital sex is not love, it only leads to pain and disappointment for those who are seeking that love. The Bible says that when two people are married, they become one flesh (Ephesians 5:31). Sex is consummation of that union. When two people break off their relationship after having sex, it is like ripping apart flesh. This is why two youths or teenagers will struggle so much and become so dependent on those they give their bodies to. In light of I Corinthians 13:4-8 (above), it is easy to see that premarital sex is not patient, it is not kind, it does not protect, it is self-seeking, it is evil. It is not love!