32 Bible Verses about sex

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

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.

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

Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;

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

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,

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.

This then is the reason why God gave them up to vile passions. For not only did the women among them exchange the natural use of their bodies for one which is contrary to nature, but the men also,

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.

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

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

But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

Or do you not know that a man who has to do with a prostitute is one with her in body? For God says, "The two shall become one."

Yet I have a few things against you, because you have with you some that cling to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling-block in the way of the descendants of Israel--to eat what had been sacrificed to idols, and commit fornication.

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

So also Sodom and Gomorrah--and the neighboring towns in the same manner--having been guilty of gross fornication and having gone astray in pursuit of unnatural vice, are now before us as a specimen of the fire of the Ages in the punishment which they are undergoing.

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

But what I meant was that you were not to associate with any one bearing the name of "brother," if he was addicted to fornication or avarice or idol-worship or abusive language or hard-drinking or greed of gain. With such a man you ought not even to eat.

For this reason, in accordance with their own depraved cravings, God gave them up to uncleanness, allowing them to dishonour their bodies among themselves with impurity.

in just the same way--neglecting that for which nature intends women--burned with passion towards one another, men practising shameful vice with men, and receiving in their own selves the reward which necessarily followed their misconduct.

but did not live with her until she had given birth to a son. The child's name he called JESUS.