22 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and of a kind unheard of even among the Gentiles--a man has his father's wife!

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;

But because there is so much fornication every man should have a wife of his own, and every woman should have a husband.

I now deal with the subjects mentioned in your letter. It is well for a man to abstain altogether from marriage.

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Yet if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a maiden marries, she has not sinned. Such people, however, will have outward trouble. But I am for sparing you.

Let a man pay his wife her due, and let a woman also pay her husband his.

There is a difference too between a married and an unmarried woman. She who is unmarried concerns herself with the Lord's business--that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but the married woman concerns herself with the business of the world--how she shall please her husband.

And I tell you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."

Do not refuse one another, unless perhaps it is just for a time and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer and may then associate again; lest the Adversary begin to tempt you because of your deficiency in self-control.

Do you not know that unrighteous men will not inherit God's Kingdom? Cherish no delusion here. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor any who are guilty of unnatural crime,

but a married man concerns himself with the business of the world--how he shall please his wife.

"If this is the case with a man in relation to his wife," said the disciples to Him, "it is better not to marry."

This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.

Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;

But I tell you that every man who puts away his wife except on the ground of unfaithfulness causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries her when so divorced commits adultery.

But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

For out of the heart proceed wicked thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, perjury, impiety of speech.

But I tell the unmarried, and women who are widows, that it is well for them to remain as I am.

For in the Resurrection, men neither marry nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in Heaven.