42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one of you hath his father's wife.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

And if a man entice a virgin that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

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

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

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

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; thou shalt not take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; they are near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

But shouldest thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Yet such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I would spare you.

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

and is divided.'so also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

None of you shall approach to any that are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am Jehovah.

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

If a man be found lying 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 shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.

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

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

The nakedness of thy father, even the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

but he that is married is careful for the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

The disciples say unto him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

And if a man take 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 shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

So then if, while the husband liveth, she be joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if the husband die, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be joined to another man.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife; and he went in unto her, and Jehovah gave her conception, and she bare a son.

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

If there be a damsel that is a virgin betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

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

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

If he take him another wife ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father fifty'shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he hath humbled her; he may not put her away all his days.