22 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

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

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

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

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

Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me, It is good for a man, not to touch a woman.

Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Yet if thou dost marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.

Let the husband render the debt to the wife; and in like manner the wife also to the husband.

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

And I say to you, whosoever shall put away his wife, except for whoredom, and marry another, committeth adultery, and whoso marrieth her that is put away, committeth adultery.

Withdraw not from each other, unless it be by consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to prayer, and may come together again, lest Satan tempt you through your incontinence.

Know ye not, that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate,

But the married careth for the things of the world, how he may please his wife.

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

Therefore if she marry another man while her husband liveth, she will be called an adultress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law, so as to be no adultress, though she marry another man.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication,

But I say unto you, whosoever shall put away his wife, save for the cause of whoredom, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away, committeth adultery.

The married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings.

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

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