42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage
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It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife.
But if they do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.
the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father's house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father's house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" -- but the immoral person sins against his own body.
"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and has sexual relations with her, he must surely endow her to be his wife.
For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,
When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.
You must not have sexual intercourse with both a woman and her daughter; you must not take as wife either her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to have intercourse with them. They are closely related to her -- it is lewdness.
Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."
Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.
A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.
But if you marry, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face difficult circumstances, and I am trying to spare you such problems.
A husband should give to his wife her sexual rights, and likewise a wife to her husband.
and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world, how to please her husband.
Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery."
"'No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the Lord.
"'You must not approach a woman in her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.
If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.
You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,
You must not expose your father's nakedness by having sexual intercourse with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have intercourse with her.
But a married man is concerned about the things of the world, how to please his wife,
Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,
The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a husband with a wife, it is better not to marry!"
If a man has sexual intercourse with both a woman and her mother, it is lewdness. Both he and they must be burned to death, so there is no lewdness in your midst.
You must not have sexual intercourse with the wife of your fellow citizen to become unclean with her.
So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is alive, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she is joined to another man, she is not an adulteress.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
You must not have sexual intercourse with your brother's wife; she is your brother's nakedness.
To the married I give this command -- not I, but the Lord -- a wife should not divorce a husband
You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.
For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
So Boaz married Ruth and had sexual relations with her. The Lord enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son.
If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,
For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
If a man commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.
If he takes another wife, he must not diminish the first one's food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
The man who has raped her must pay her father fifty shekels of silver and she must become his wife because he has violated her; he may never divorce her as long as he lives.
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