47 Bible Verses about Same Sex Marriage

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

Because of this did God give them up to dishonourable affections, for even their females did change the natural use into that against nature;

And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.

and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood is on them.

The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it is thy brother's nakedness.

And a man who taketh the woman and her mother -- it is wickedness; with fire they burn him and them, and there is no wickedness in your midst.

'The nakedness of thy sister, daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, born at home or born without; thou dost not uncover their nakedness.

His disciples say to him, 'If the case of the man with the woman is so, it is not good to marry.'

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they are her relations; it is wickedness.

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I am Jehovah.

'And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

'And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

'And there were with us seven brothers, and the first having married did die, and not having seed, he left his wife to his brother;

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Become not yoked with others -- unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness?

And a man who taketh his brother's wife -- it is impurity; the nakedness of his brother he hath uncovered; childless they are.

And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife -- who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour -- the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

'When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.

The nakedness of a daughter of thy father's wife, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

A wife hath been bound by law as long time as her husband may live, and if her husband may sleep, she is free to be married to whom she will -- only in the Lord;

for there are eunuchs who from the mother's womb were so born; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who kept themselves eunuchs because of the reign of the heavens: he who is able to receive it -- let him receive.'

and if any one doth think it to be unseemly to his virgin, if she may be beyond the bloom of age, and it ought so to be, what he willeth let him do; he doth not sin -- let him marry.

The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they are the heroes, who, from of old, are the men of name.

for when they may rise out of the dead, they neither marry nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers who are in the heavens.

and Cain knoweth his wife, and she conceiveth, and beareth Enoch; and he is building a city, and he calleth the name of the city, according to the name of his son -- Enoch.

And Boaz taketh Ruth, and she becometh his wife, and he goeth in unto her, and Jehovah giveth to her conception, and she beareth a son.

whoremongers, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that to sound doctrine is adverse,

'And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;

and I say unto her, 'Many days thou dost remain for Me, thou dost not go a-whoring, nor become any one's; and I also am for thee.'

forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth,

and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you;

The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she is thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

and thou, if thou hast turned aside under thy husband, and if thou hast been defiled, and any man doth give his copulation to thee besides thy husband --