22 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

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

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

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

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

Nevertheless to prevent whoredoms, let every one have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Now as to the things concerning which ye wrote to me: it were good for a man not to touch a woman.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Though, if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned: such however will probably have more trouble in life: but I spare you.

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

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

and I tell you, that whosoever putteth away his wife, except for whoredom, and marrieth another, committeth adultery; and he that marrieth her so put away committeth adultery.

Do not withdraw from one another, unless by consent for a season, that ye may attend to fasting and prayer: and come together again, least Satan tempt you through your incontinency.

What! 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, nor sodomites,

that is married, is in care about the things of the world, and how he may please his wife.

His disciples say unto Him, if the case of a man with his wife be thus, it is not adviseable to marry:

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, such as, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

but I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except on account of whoredom, tempteth her to commit adultery; and if any man marry her that is divorced, he committeth adultery.

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated from her husband;

For out of the heart proceed wicked disputings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, slanders:

Now to the unmarried and widows I say, it is good for them to continue so, as I do.

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