22 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: a man has his father's wife.

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have troubles in this flesh, and I am trying to spare you.

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

and his interests are divided. The unmarried woman, and the virgin, is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, how she may please her husband.

And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery."

Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,

but a married man is concerned about the affairs of the world, how he may please his wife,

The disciples said to him, "If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry."

So then, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and though she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,

But I say to you that every one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to become an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornications, theft, false witness, slander.

But I say to the unmarried and to the widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I.

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