42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

On all hands, there is reported to be among you - fornication, and such fornication as this - which, not among the nations, is found , - as that one should have, his father's wife: -

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

then shall they bring forth the damsel into the entrance of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die, because she hath wrought wickedness in Israel, by committing unchastity in her father's house, - so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of thy midst.

Flee fornication! Every sin, whatsoever a man shall commit, is, outside his body, but, he that committeth fornication, bringeth sin into his own body.

And, when a man enticeth a virgin who is not betrothed, and lieth with her, he shall, surely pay a purchase-price, that she may be his wife.

For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity,

Also, a woman with whom man lieth carnally, then shall they bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.

But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:

The shame of a woman, and of her daughter, shalt thou not uncover, - neither the daughter of her son nor the laughter of her daughter, shalt thou take, to uncover her shame, near of kin, they are, wickedness, it is.

Now, concerning the things whereof ye wrote, it were, good, for a man, not to touch, a woman;

Let marriage be honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, for, fornicators and adulterers, God, will judge.

A bastard shall not enter into the convocation of Yahweh, - even to the tenth generation, shall none of his enter into the convocation of Yahweh.

If, however, thou shouldst even marry, thou hast not sinned; and, if one who is virgin should marry, that one hath not sinned; - but, tribulation of the flesh, shall, such, have: - howbeit, I, spare you.

Unto the wife, let the husband render what is her due, and, in like manner, the wife also, unto the husband, -

And he is divided; and, the unmarried woman, or the virgin, is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy bothin her body and in her spirit; but, she that hath married, is anxious for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And I say unto you - Whosoever shall divorce his wife, saving for unfaithfulness, and shall marry another, committeth adultery.

No person whatsoever, unto any of the near kin of his own flesh, shall approach to uncover the parts of shame, - I, am Yahweh.

And unto a woman during her removal for uncleanness, shalt thou not approach, to uncover her shame.

When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then shall, both, of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman, so shalt thou consume the wicked thing out of Israel.

And, a woman unto her sister, shalt thou not take, - to cause rivalry, by uncovering her shame besides her own while she is living.

Be not depriving one another - unless perhaps by consent for a season, that ye may have leisure for prayer, and, again, may be together, - lest Satan be tempting you by reason of your want of self-control.

Or know ye not that, wrong-doers, shall not inherit, God's kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves: - neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

The shame of thy father, even the shame of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover, - thy mother, she is, thou shalt not uncover her shame.

But, he that hath married, is anxious for the things of the world, how may please his wife -

When a man taketh a wife, - and goeth in unto her and hateth her;

The disciples say unto him - If, so, is the cause of the husband with the wife, it is not expedient to marry.

And, any man, who taketh a woman and her mother, wickedness, it is, - in fire, shall both he and they be consumed, that wickedness be not in your midst.

And of the wife of thy neighbour, shalt thou not have carnal knowledge, - to commit uncleanness with her.

Hence then, her husband being alive, an adulteress, shall she be called - if she become another man's, but, if the husband have died, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are - fornication, impurity, wantonness,

But, I, say unto you, that, Everyone who divorceth his wife - saving for unfaithfulness, causeth her to be made an adulteress, - and, whosoever shall marry a divorced woman, committeth adultery.

The shame of thy brother's wife, shalt thou not uncover, - the shame of thy brother, it is.

To the married, however, I give charge - not, I, but the Lord, - that, a wife, from her husband, do not depart, -

And, with mankind, shalt thou not lie as with womankind, - an abomination, it is.

For, out of the heart, come forth wicked designs, - murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, profane speakings:

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in unto her, - and Yahweh granted her conception, and she bare a son.

But I say, to the unmarried, and to the widows, good, were it for them, that they should abide, even as I;

When a damsel that is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, - and a man findeth her in the city, and lieth with her,

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

And, any man, who committeth adultery with the wife of any other man, he that committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour shall surely be put to death - the adulterer, and the adulteress.

If he take to himself another, her food her clothing, and her marriage-right, shall he not withdraw.

then shall the man who lay with her 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.