59 Bible Verses about sex

Let the husband give to the wife what is right; and let the wife do the same to the husband.

Keep away from the desires of the flesh. Every sin which a man does is outside of the body; but he who goes after the desires of the flesh does evil to his body.

But because of the desires of the flesh, let every man have his wife, and every woman her husband.

Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will put an end to them together. But the body is not for the desires of the flesh, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Then Judah said to Onan, Go in to your brother's wife and do what it is right for a husband's brother to do; make her your wife and get offspring for your brother.

And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

Now, as to the things in your letter to me: It is good for a man to have nothing to do with a woman.

If a man takes a virgin, who has not given her word to another man, and has connection with her, he will have to give a bride-price for her to be his wife.

And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.

Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

And she was full of desire for her lovers, whose flesh is like the flesh of asses and whose seed is like the seed of horses.

It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.

But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.

But evil acts of the flesh and all unclean things, or desire for others' property, let it not even be named among you, as is right for saints;

Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.

And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.

And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.

But I have some things against you, because you have with you those who keep the teaching of Balaam, by whose suggestion Balak made the children of Israel go out of the right way, taking food which was offered to false gods, and going after the desires of the flesh.

Let married life be honoured among all of you and not made unclean; for men untrue in married life will be judged by God.

But Onan, seeing that the offspring would not be his, went in to his brother's wife, but let his seed go on to the earth, so that he might not get offspring for his brother.

And pulling at his coat, she said, Come to my bed; but slipping out of his coat, he went running away.

So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.

And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.

Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.

And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death.

For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another:

And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

Now while they were living in that country, Reuben had connection with Bilhah, his father's servant-woman: and Israel had news of it.

And he had no connection with her till she had given birth to a son; and he gave him the name Jesus.

But all the female children who have had no sex relations with men, you may keep for yourselves.