42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

One whose father and mother are not married may not come into the meeting of the Lord's people, or any of his family to the tenth generation.

If you get married it is not a sin; and if an unmarried woman gets married it is not a sin. But those who do so will have trouble in the flesh. But I will not be hard on you.

Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

And the wife is not the same as the virgin. The virgin gives her mind to the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but the married woman takes thought for the things of the world, how she may give pleasure to her husband.

And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.

You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.

But the married man gives his attention to the things of this world, how he may give pleasure to his wife.

If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.

And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

But I say to you that everyone who puts away his wife for any other cause but the loss of her virtue, makes her false to her husband; and whoever takes her as his wife after she is put away, is no true husband to her.

You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord made her with child and she gave birth to a son.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows, It is good for them to be even as I am.

If a young virgin has given her word to be married to a man, and another man meeting her in the town, has connection with her;

For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.

And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

Then the man will have to give the virgin's father fifty shekels of silver and make her his wife, because he has put shame on her; he may never put her away all his life.