CAN married Christian couples REFUSE each other sex?

CAN married Christian couples REFUSE each other sex?

1Cor 7:5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time... From THIS text it can be UNDOUBTEDLY concluded that refusal of sex to your partner is a sin. In 1Cor 7:3-4 the apostle Paul makes THIS statement: " The husband should give to his wife her conjugal (marital/nuptial rights – sex), and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does." If ONE partner wants sex, the above texts state it VERY clearly to Christian married couples: "no refusal" is permitted unless mutually agreed to for a time of fasting and prayer. That is the command of scripture. Your body belongs to her, and vice versa. You as the husband on the other hand must honestly ask yourself the question if you are NOT contributing to her frigidity (Failure to respond to a sexual stimulus; her aversion to sexual intercourse OR failure to achieve an orgasm) by bringing pornography into your marriage bed, being UNFAITHFUL to your wife or instead of expressing your love to her during sexual intercourse, are you NOT just USING her body to satisfy your sexual desires and lust? In such cases, YOU as the husband are committing a sin. However, if your conscience is clear, and SHE is sinning by "REFUSING", SHE is committing a GRIEVOUS sin and DIRECTLY disobeys the word of God, in which case she must be CONFRONTED about it. Take her in private and confront her with the Word, as commanded by Y’shua (Jesus) Himself. If she does NOT repent, bring two or three believers as witnesses, and in THEIR presence, confront her again about her sin. Hopefully, she will SEE the wrong in her behaviour, and adjust her perspective according to the WORD of God. Perhaps the shame of having her secret sin exposed will goad (inspire/motivate) her to take her covenantal responsibilities seriously. God has told you what to do if you find your brother (or sister, in this case) in sin (Matthew 18:15-17). There are MANY modern CHRISTIAN women who are TRANSGRESSING in THIS area. They TRY to justify their sin by providing ALL kinds of excuses OR accusing their husbands of being sex maniacs. Some of them would go as far as to say that the apostle Paul was a woman hater, and that married women have the RIGHT to REFUSE their husbands sex. Yet ANOTHER breed of married women uses sex, the holy institution of God, as a BLACKMAIL and CONTROL tool. They starve their husbands of sex, to humiliate them and to get what THEY want. SUCH women are NO less than prostitutes who happen to be married. It is TRUE that husbands can ALSO make themselves GUILTY of THIS sin, but it is MORE often women who make themselves guilty. Whenever sex is bartered (exchanged/swapped), it is prostitution; EVEN in the absence of financial reward. Christian married couples BELONG to each other. They have become ONE (Exodus 2:24). ANY party, who SIN in THIS regard, is MOCKING God. The above scriptures state it VERY clear that ANY of the above actions OR responses of a woman, is NON-BIBLICAL and a SIN. God is NOT mocked. It is VERY clear that refusing a marital partner in a BIBLICAL marriage sex, is a SIN…. Full STOP! The apostle Paul WARNS us that God WILL punish the GUILTY party. He ALSO advise us that we must NOT be misled AND deceived by the EMPTY words of a THIRD party who SUPPORT refusal of sex in a Christian marriage because it’s SHAMEFUL and CONTRARY to God’s will. (Ephesians 5:3-17)