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 cannot contain, 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 that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.

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 maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

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

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

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 whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers 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 marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

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

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth 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, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.

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

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an 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 wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

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 mankind,

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

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

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

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

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

So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married 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, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth 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 depart from her husband:

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: 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 bare a son.

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

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an 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 the angels of God in heaven.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour'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.