42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.

But if they do not have self-control, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with desire.

they will bring the woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from you.

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and he has sexual relations with her, he must certainly pay the bridal price for her to be his wife.

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sex with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman.”

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

No one of illegitimate birth may enter the Lord’s assembly; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, may enter the Lord’s assembly.

However, if you do get married, you have not sinned, and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

A husband should fulfill his marital responsibility to his wife, and likewise a wife to her husband.

and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But a married woman is concerned about the things of the world—how she may please her husband.

And I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

“You are not to come near any close relative for sexual intercourse; I am Yahweh.

“You are not to come near a woman during her menstrual impurity to have sexual intercourse with her.

“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

You are not to marry a woman as a rival to her sister and have sexual intercourse with her during her sister’s lifetime.

Do not deprive one another sexually—except when you agree for a time, to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again; otherwise, Satan may tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

You are not to shame your father by having sex with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual intercourse with her.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife—

“If a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and comes to hate her,

His disciples said to Him, “If the relationship of a man with his wife is like this, it’s better not to marry!”

If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned with fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, defiling yourself with her.

So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,

But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

You are not to have sexual intercourse with your brother’s wife; it will shame your brother.

I command the married—not I, but the Lord—a wife is not to leave her husband.

You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. When he was intimate with her, the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them if they remain as I am.

If there is a young woman who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and has sex with her,

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

If a man commits adultery with a married woman—if he commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife—both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

If he takes an additional wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of the first wife.

the man who raped her must give the young woman’s father 50 silver shekels, and she must become his wife because he violated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.