Singer Justin Bieber just spoke out to say that his biggest regret in life is not waiting until he was married to have sex.

Bieber opened up about his troubled past like never before on his wife Hailey Baldwin’s Facebook Watch series “The Biebers on Watch,” and things got very real when the topic of sex came up.

“If I could go back and not have to face some of the bad hurt that I went through, I probably would’ve saved myself for marriage,” said Bieber, 26, according to Fox News.

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He went on to say that even though it sounds “crazy,” he thinks sex can complicate a relationship before marriage.

“Sex can be kind of confusing when you’re just being sexually active with anybody. We went there. It’s just true,” Bieber said. “I probably would have saved myself for marriage.”

Baldwin, 23, said that while she doesn’t know if she could have stayed celibate before marriage, she can see where her husband is coming from.

“I do agree with the fact that being physical with someone can make things more confusing,” she said.

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Bieber has been increasingly open about his strong Christian faith in recent months. Earlier this year, he explained that he truly started following Christ just before his marriage to Baldwin.

“I really took a deep dive in my faith,” Bieber explained of a dark period in his life. “I believed in Jesus but I never really, like…when it says following Jesus is actually turning away from sin, and so there’s no, it talks about it in the Bible, there’s no faith without obedience.”

He went on to talk about the moment he turned away from the alcohol and drugs that had dominated his life for so long.

“I think it was my perception of who Jesus really was,” he said. “I’d had really bad examples of Christians in my life, who would say one thing and do another, so they were my direct example of who Jesus was.”

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These days, Bieber is doing better than ever, and he credits much of that to his faith.

“The way I look at God and my relationship with Jesus is I’m not trying to earn God’s love by doing good things,” Bieber said. “God has already loved me for who I am before I did anything to earn or deserve it. It’s a free gift by accepting Jesus, giving your life to him, and what he did is the gift. The forgiveness is the thing that we look at and we go, you know, I’m going to worship you, God, because you gave me something so good.”

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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