42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn [with sexual desire].

and [then] they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel {by playing the harlot} [in] the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

" 'If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged and he lies with her, he surely will give her bride price {to have her as his wife}.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;

If [there is] a woman with whom a man lies down [and there is] an emission of semen, then they shall wash [themselves] with water, and they shall be unclean until the evening.

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

You must not expose the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter; you must not take [her as wife] to expose her nakedness; they [are] {close relatives}--that [is] wickedness.

Now concerning [the things] about which you wrote: "[It is] good for a man not to touch a woman."

Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even [to] the tenth generation none {of his descendants} may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

But if you marry, you have not sinned, and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such people will have affliction in the flesh, and I would spare you.

The husband must fulfill his obligation to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

and he is divided. And the unmarried woman or the virgin cares for the things of the Lord, in order that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But the married woman cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery."

" '{None} [of] you shall approach anyone [who is] {his close relative} to expose nakedness; I [am] Yahweh.

" 'And you must not {have sex with} a woman to expose her nakedness {during} her menstrual uncleanness.

"If a man is found lying {with a married woman}, then they shall both die; {both of them}, the man who lay with the woman and the woman [also], so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

And you must not take [as wife] a woman with her sister, to be a rival-wife, to expose her nakedness before her {during} her life.

Do not defraud one another, except perhaps by agreement, for a time, in order that you may devote yourselves to prayer, and [then] you should be {together} again, lest Satan tempt you because of your lack of self control.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners,

You must not expose your father's nakedness or your mother's nakedness--she [is] your mother; you must not expose her nakedness.

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

"If a man takes a woman and {he has sex with her}, but [he] then {dislikes her},

The disciples said to him, "If this is the case of a man with his wife, it would be better not to marry!"

" 'As for a man who marries a woman and her mother, that [is] depravity; they shall burn him and them, so that it shall not become depravity in the midst of you [all].

And {you must not have sex} with your fellow citizen's wife, becoming unclean with her.

Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man [while] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress [if she] belongs to another man.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

You must not expose the nakedness of your brother's wife; she [is] your brother's nakedness.

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

And you shall not lie with a male as lying {with} a woman; that [is] a detestable thing.

For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went [in] to her, and Yahweh {enabled her to conceive}, and she bore a son.

Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: [It is] good for them if they remain as I [am].

"If it happens [that] a young woman, a virgin, [is] engaged to a man, [and] a man finds her in the town and lies with her,

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

" 'As for a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, [both] the man who commits adultery and the woman who commits adultery shall surely be put to death.

If he takes for himself another, he will not reduce her food, her clothing, or her right of cohabitation.

then {the man who lay with her} shall give to the father of the young woman fifty [shekels] of silver, and she shall become {his wife} {because} he violated her, and he is not allowed to divorce her {during his lifetime}.