42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

But if they do not have the gift of continence, 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 with stones, and she shall die because she has wrought folly in Israel, to fornicate in her father's house; so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

Flee fornication. Any other sin that a man does is outside the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

If a man should entice a virgin that is not betrothed and lie with her, he shall surely endow her and take her to be his wife.

For the will of God is your sanctification, that ye should separate yourselves from fornication,

The woman also with whom the man shall have sexual contact with seed, they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen; it is wickedness.

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

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

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have affliction in the flesh, but I forbear you.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence, and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication and shall marry another, commits adultery, and whosoever marries her that is put away commits adultery.

No man shall approach any woman that is near of kin to him, to uncover her nakedness. I am the LORD.

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness as long as she is separated for her uncleanness.

If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman and the woman; so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Neither shalt thou take a woman together with her sister, to make her a rival, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her lifetime.

Do not defraud one another, except it be with mutual consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer and come together again, that Satan not tempt you for your incontinency.

Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals

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

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

When any man takes a wife and after having gone in unto her, hates her

His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not expedient 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.

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, contaminating thyself with her.

So then if, while her husband lives, she belongs to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law so that she is no adulteress if she belongs to another man.

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

but I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery; and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.

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

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife separate from her husband;

Thou shalt not lie with males as with women; it is abomination.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife, and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.

I say, therefore, to the unmarried men and widowers, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

When a damsel that is a virgin is betrothed unto a husband and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

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

And the man that commits adultery with another man's wife, he that commits adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely die.

If he takes another wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, he shall 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 has humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.