22 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

but if they have not the gift, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be in pain.

flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.

Now as to the question you writ to me about; "whether it is best for a man not to marry?"

Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.

not that it is a sin for you to marry; nor is it so if a virgin marry; but they that do, will be troubled for their relations, and that I would prevent.

let the husband discharge his obligations to his wife: and likewise the wife to the husband.

there is the same difference between a married woman and a virgin: the last is religiously concern'd to be holy, both in body and mind: but she that is married is taken up with worldly cares to please her husband.

and I tell you, that whoever shall put away his wife, except it be for adultery, and shall marry another, he committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her that is put away, causeth her to commit adultery.

don't desert one another, unless you mutually consent to retire for a time, to the solemnity of prayer; and then come together again, lest satan make an attempt upon your continency.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,

he that is married is worldly concern'd, how he may please his wife.

thereupon his disciples said, if the case between man and wife be such, it is best not to marry.

wherefore she will be reputed an adulteress if she become another man's during her husband's life: but if her husband dies, she is clear from that law, from the imputation of being an adulteress, though she become another man's.

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,

but I say unto you, whoever shall put away his wife, except in the case of adultery, is the occasion of her being an adulteress, and he that shall marry her is an adulterer.

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:

out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.

As to the unmarried and widows, I say, it is best for them to continue so, as I do.

for in the other life after this, there will be no such thing as marriage; but they will be as the angels of God in heaven.