22 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father.

but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

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

But concerning those things about which you wrote to me: That it is good for a man not to receive a wife:

Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

But if, indeed you may marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin may marry, she has not sinned; but such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

Let the husband give to the wife that which is due, and likewise the wife also to the husband.

A wife and a virgin truly also differ: the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and in spirit: but she having married cares for the things of the world, that she may please her husband.

But I say unto you, That whosoever may send away his wife, not for fornication, and may marry another, commits adultery.

Do not defraud one another, unless it may be with consent for a time, that you may give attention to prayer, and again come together, in order that Satan may not tempt you on account of your incontinency.

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,

but the one having married cares for the things of the world, in order that he may please his wife.

His disciples say to Him, If the cause of a man with his wife is thus, it is better not to marry.

Then if she may be married to another man, her husband still living, she will be designated an adulteress: but if her husband may die, she is free from the law; and is no adulteress, though she is married to another man.

But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery,

But I say unto you, that every one sending away his wife, except on account of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever may marry her who has been cast off commits adultery.

But I proclaim to those who have married, not I, but the Lord, That a wife shall not depart from her husband

For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

But I speak to the unmarried and the widows, that it is good for them that they may remain even as I:

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