42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage
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It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.
But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.
then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father's house: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. You shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.
But if you marry, you have not sinned. If a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have oppression in the flesh, and I want to spare you.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world -- how she may please her husband.
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."
"'None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
"'You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
"'You shall not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival, to uncover her nakedness, while her sister is yet alive.
Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.
His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."
"'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
"'You shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, and defile yourself with her.
So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife: it is your brother's nakedness.
But to the married I command -- not I, but the Lord -- that the wife not leave her husband
"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh gave her conception, and she bore a son.
But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.
If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are like God's angels in heaven.
"'The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
then the man who lay with her shall give to the lady's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.
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