47 Bible Verses about Same Sex Marriage

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions. For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife—

If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.

for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.

If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing. They must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; it will shame your brother.

If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned with fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether born at home or born elsewhere. You are not to have sex with her.

His disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry!”

I command the married—not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to leave her husband.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

“You are not to come near any close relative for sexual intercourse; I am Yahweh.

If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.

Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother.

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has shamed his brother; they will be childless.

If a man commits adultery with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s wife’s daughter, who is adopted by your father; she is your sister.

A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants—only in the Lord.

For there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother’s womb, there are eunuchs who were made by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves that way because of the kingdom of heaven. Let anyone accept this who can.”

But if any man thinks he is acting improperly toward his virgin, if she is past marriageable age, and so it must be, he can do what he wants. He is not sinning; they can get married.

The Nephilim were on the earth both in those days and afterward, when the sons of God came to the daughters of mankind, who bore children to them. They were the powerful men of old, the famous men.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels in heaven.

Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son.

Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he was intimate with her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

for the sexually immoral and homosexuals, for kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.

Therefore, I want younger women to marry, have children, manage their households, and give the adversary no opportunity to accuse us.

I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

I said to her, “You must live with me many days. Don’t be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way toward you.”

They forbid marriage and demand abstinence from foods that God created to be received with gratitude by those who believe and know the truth.

If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sex with her.

But I tell you, everyone who looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority, if you have defiled yourself and a man other than your husband has slept with you’—