42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.

But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are blood relatives. It is lewdness.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

But if you marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Yet such will have trouble in this life, and I am trying to spare you.

The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

and his interests are divided. The woman who is unmarried, and the virgin, is concerned about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and spirit; but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

‘None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the Lord.

‘Also you shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness during her menstrual impurity.

“If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

You shall not marry a woman in addition to her sister as a rival while she is alive, to uncover her nakedness.

Stop depriving one another, except by agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.

but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

“If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then turns against her,

The disciples *said to Him, “If the relationship of the man with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry.”

If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst.

You shall not have intercourse with your neighbor’s wife, to be defiled with her.

So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,

but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness.

But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband

You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her. And the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

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

“If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery with his friend’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

If he takes to himself another woman, he may not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall become his wife because he has violated her; he cannot divorce her all his days.