42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is universally reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the nations, so that one should have his father's wife.

But if they have not control over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

then they shall bring out the damsel unto the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought infamy in Israel, committing fornication in her father's house; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

And if a man seduce a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall certainly endow her, to be his wife.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation they shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.

but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.

The nakedness of a woman and her daughter shalt thou not uncover; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, nor her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness: they are her near relations: it is wickedness.

But concerning the things of which ye have written to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

A bastard shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah; even his tenth generation shall not come into the congregation of Jehovah.

But if thou shouldest also marry, thou hast not sinned; and if the virgin marry, they have not sinned: but such shall have tribulation in the flesh; but I spare you.

Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.

There is a difference between the wife and the virgin. The unmarried cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but she that has married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please her husband.

But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, not for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery; and he who marries one put away commits adultery.

No one shall approach to any that is his near relation, to uncover his nakedness: I am Jehovah.

And thou shalt not approach a woman in the separation of her uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.

If a man be found lying with a man's wife, they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away evil from Israel.

And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness beside her, during her life.

Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,

The nakedness of thy father, and the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother: thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

but he that has married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please his wife.

If a man take a wife, and go in unto her and hate her,

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is infamy: they shall burn him and them with fire, that there be no infamy among you.

And thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to become unclean with her.

so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except for cause of fornication, makes her commit adultery, and whosoever marries one that is put away commits adultery.

The nakedness of thy brother's wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy brother's nakedness.

But to the married I enjoin, not I, but the Lord, Let not wife be separated from husband;

And thou shalt not lie with mankind as one lieth with a woman: it is an abomination.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

And Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in unto her, and Jehovah gave her conception, and she bore a son.

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

If a damsel, a virgin, be betrothed to some one, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her,

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

And a man that committeth adultery with a man's wife, who committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall certainly be put to death.

If he take himself another, her food, her clothing, and her conjugal rights he shall not diminish.

then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.