42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, and of a kind that is not found even among the gentiles. A man is actually living with his father's wife!

However, if they cannot control themselves, they should get married, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

they are to bring her to the door of her father's house. Then the men of the city are to stone her with boulders until she dies for doing a detestable thing in Israel acting like a prostitute while in her father's house. By doing this, you will remove this evil from among you.

Keep on running away from sexual immorality. Any other sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the person who sins sexually sins against his own body.

"When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her, he must pay her bride price, and she is to become his wife.

For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.

When a man has sexual relations with a woman and the man releases semen, both are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening."

Because sexual immorality is so rampant, every man should have his own wife, and every woman should have her own husband.

"You are not to have sexual relations with a woman and her daughter. "You are not to have sexual relations with her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter. They're near blood relatives. It's wickedness.

Now about what you asked: "Is it advisable for a man not to marry?"

Let marriage be kept honorable in every way, and the marriage bed undefiled. For God will judge those who commit sexual sins, especially those who commit adultery.

Furthermore, no one born due to an illicit sexual relationship may participate in the assembly of the LORD, including his descendants to the tenth generation.

But if you do get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin gets married, she has not sinned. However, these people will experience trouble in this life, and I want to spare you from that.

A husband should fulfill his obligation to his wife, and a wife should do the same for her husband.

and so his attention is divided.

I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."

"A person is not to approach a near blood relative for sexual relations. I am the LORD.

"You are not to approach a menstruating woman to have sexual relations with her.

"If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman, then both of them must die the man who had sex with the woman and the woman herself so that this evil will be removed from Israel.

"You are not to marry a woman and then have sexual relations with her sister as a rival when your wife is still alive.

Do not withhold yourselves from each other unless you agree to do so just for a set time, in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then you should come together again so that Satan does not tempt you through your lack of self-control.

You know that wicked people will not inherit the kingdom of God, don't you? Stop deceiving yourselves! Sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,

"Neither your father's nakedness nor your mother's nakedness is to be exposed. She's your mother, so you are not to have sexual relations with her.

But a married man is concerned about things of this world, that is, about how he can please his wife,

"Suppose a man marries a wife, but after having sexual relations with her, he despises her,

His disciples asked him, "If that is the relationship of a man with his wife, it's not worth getting married!"

"If a man takes a wife along with her mother, that's wickedness. They are to be burned with fire that is, both him and them, so that there will be no wickedness in your midst.

"You are not to have sexual relations with your neighbor's wife and thereby become ceremonially unclean with her."

So while her husband is living, she will be called an adulterer if she lives with another man. But if her husband dies, she is free from this Law, so that she is not an adulterer if she marries another man.

Now the actions of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, promiscuity,

But I say to you, any man who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

"You are not to have sexual relations with your brother's wife. She's the nakedness of your brother.

To married people I give this command (not really I, but the Lord): A wife must not leave her husband.

"I am the LORD. You are not to have sexual relations with a male as you would with a woman. It's detestable."

It is out of the heart that evil thoughts come, as well as murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, false testimony, and slander.

So Boaz took Ruth to be his wife, and when he had marital relations with her, the LORD made her conceive, and she bore a son.

I say to those who are unmarried, especially to widows: It is good for them to remain like me.

"If a man meets a young virgin lady in the city who is engaged to be married and has sexual relations with her,

because in the resurrection, people neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven.

"If anyone commits adultery with another man's wife, including when someone commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress are to die.

If he takes another woman for himself, he may not withhold from the first her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.

then the man who raped her must give 50 shekels of silver to the girl's father. Furthermore, he must marry her. Because he had violated her, he is to not divorce her as long as he lives.