42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

There goeth a common saying that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not once named among the gentiles: that one should have his father's wife.

but and if they cannot abstain, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn.

let them bring her unto the door of her father's house, and let the men of that city stone her with stones to death, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee.

Flee fornication. All sins that a man doth, are without the body. But he that is a fornicator, sinneth against his own body.

"If a man beguile a maid that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall endote her and take her to his wife:

For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

And if a woman lie with such a one, they shall wash themselves with water and be unclean until even.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her husband.

Thou shalt not uncover the privities of the wife and her daughter also; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their privities: they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness.

As concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man, not to touch a woman.

Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.

And he that is a whore's child shall not come in the congregation of the LORD; no, in the tenth generation he shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

But and if thou take a wife, thou sinnest not. Likewise if a virgin marry, she sinneth not. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in their flesh: but I saver you.

Let the man give unto the wife due benevolence. Likewise also the wife unto the man.

There is difference between a virgin and a wife. The single woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be pure both in body and also in spirit: but she that is married, careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

I say therefore unto you, whosoever putteth away his wife, except it be for fornication, and marrieth another, breaketh wedlock. And whosoever marrieth her which is divorced, doth commit adultery."

"'See that ye go to none of your nighest kindred for to uncover their privities, for I am the LORD.

Thou shalt not go unto a woman to uncover her privity as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

If a man be found lying with a woman that hath a wedded husband, they shall die: both the man that lie with the wife, and also the wife. So shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Thou shalt not take a wife and her sister thereto, to vex her that thou wouldest open her privities as long as she liveth.

Withdraw not yourselves one from another except it be with consent for a time, for to give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and afterward come again to the same thing, lest Satan tempt you for your incontinency.

Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,

The privities of thy father and thy mother, see thou unhele not: she is thy mother, therefore shalt thou not uncover her privities.

but he that hath married, careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

If a man take a wife, and when he hath lain with her hate her,

Then said his disciples to him, "If the matter be so between man and wife, then is it not good to marry."

If a man take a wife and her mother thereto, it is wickedness. Men shall burn with fire both him and them, that there be no wickedness among you.

"'Thou shalt not lie with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her.

So then, if while the man liveth she couple herself with another man, she shall be counted a wedlock-breaker. But if the man be dead she is free from the law: so that she is no wedlock-breaker, though she couple herself with another man.

The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

But I say unto you, Whosoever put away his wife, except it be for fornication, causeth her to break matrimony. And whosoever marryeth her that is divorced breaketh wedlock.

Thou shalt not unhele the privity of thy brother's wife, for that is thy brother's privity.

Unto the married command not I, but the Lord: that the wife separate not herself from the man.

"'Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind, for that is abomination.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.

And so Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife. And he went in unto her, and the LORD gave that she conceived and bare a son.

I say unto the unmarried men, and widows: it is good for them if they abide even as I do,

If a maid be handfasted unto a husband, and then a man find her in the town and lay with her,

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are married: but are as the angels of God in heaven.

He that breaketh wedlock with another man's wife shall die for it, because he hath broke wedlock with his neighbour's wife, and so shall she likewise.

If he take him another wife, yet her food, raiment and duty of marriage shall he not minish.

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty sicles of silver. And she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her, and he may not put her away all his days.