42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

Fornication is actually heard among you, and such fornication that is not even named among the Gentiles, for some man to have his father's wife.

But if they have no self-control they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn.

then they shall bring the damsel out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house. So shall thou

Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

And if a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lays with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

The woman also with whom a man shall lay with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter. Thou shall not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness. They are near kinswomen. It is iniquity.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of LORD, even to the tenth generation none of his shall enter into the assembly of LORD.

But also if thou did marry thou have not sinned, and if the virgin married she has not sinned. Yet such kind will have stress in the flesh, but I spare you.

Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband.

And the wife and the virgin are differentiated. The unmarried woman is concerned for the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married is concerned for the things of the world, how s

And I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife, not for fornication, and will marry another, commits adultery. And he who married her who has been divorced commits adultery.

None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover nakedness. I am LORD.

And thou shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is impure by her uncleanness.

If a man be found laying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel.

And thou shall not take a wife in addition to her sister, to be a rival [to her], to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,

The nakedness of thy father, even the nakedness of thy mother, thou shall not uncover. She is thy mother. Thou shall not uncover her nakedness,

But he who is married cares for things of the world, how he will please his wife.

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, and dislikes her,

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man with his wife is this way, it is not advantageous to marry.

And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burnt with fire, both he and they, that there be no wickedness among you.

And thou shall not lay carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

So then, of the living husband, she will be called an adulteress if she becomes to another man, but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, for her not to be an adulteress having become to another man.

Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,

But I say to you, that whoever may divorce his wife apart from a matter of fornication, disposes her to commit adultery, and whoever may marry her who has been divorced commits adultery.

Thou shall not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife. It is thy brother's nakedness.

And to those who are married, I do not command but the Lord. The wife is not to separate from her husband.

Thou shall not lay with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination.

For from the heart comes forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, FALSE witnessings, revilings.

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.

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

If there be a damsel who is a virgin betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lays with her,

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as agents of God in heaven.

And the man who commits adultery with another man's wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

If he takes him another [wife], her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall not diminish.

then the man who lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has humbled her. He may not put her away all his days.