Is loving each other at the age of 17 right or wrong?<\/p>\n\t
Your question is too vague for me to give you a good answer. You have a love for your parents from the time you are a small child, and that is certainly right.<\/p>\n
People are quite capable of falling in love during their teenage years, but it doesn’t imply that getting married at 17 would be a wise choice. In fact, in many areas of the world, a person is not able to marry until they are older. Even if marriage were possible, there is a problem that arises when a person is below the age of majority — you can’t get a good-paying job, sign a contract on an apartment, and do many other legal transactions. Wisdom would be to wait until a marriage relationship is practical. And if you are both truly in love, then the delay will not matter. “Love is patient …\u00a0<\/em>” (I Corinthians 13:4).<\/p>\n But the use of the word “loving” has been abused. To some people, it doesn’t mean a strong preference for another person, but sexual intercourse. Such is not proper when two people are not married. “Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge<\/em>” (Hebrews 13:4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Question: Is loving each other at the age of 17 right or wrong? Answer: Your question is too vague for me to give you a good answer. You have a love for your parents from the time you are a small child, and that is certainly right. People are quite capable of falling in love…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[149,1572,65],"class_list":["post-9245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-dating","tag-fornication","tag-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36642,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-it-a-sin-to-love-a-girl-who-is-underaged\/","url_meta":{"origin":9245,"position":0},"title":"Is it a sin to love a girl who is underaged?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"February 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Is it wrong to be in love with an under-aged girl? 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