42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

On the whole it is reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even named among the nations, so as one to have his father's wife.

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

then they shall bring the girl out to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies, because she has done foolishness in Israel to play the harlot in her father's house. So you shall put evil away from among you.

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

And if a man lures a virgin who is not promised, and lies with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

And the woman with whom a man shall lie with emission of semen shall both bathe in water and be unclean until the evening.

But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shall you undertake to uncover her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter. They are her near kinswomen; it is wickedness.

Now concerning what you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of Jehovah. Even to his tenth generation he shall not enter into the congregation of Jehovah.

But if you do marry, you did not sin; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you.

Let the husband give to the wife proper kindness, and likewise the wife also to the husband.

The wife and the virgin are different. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is put away commits adultery.

None of you shall approach to any who are near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. I am Jehovah.

Also you shall not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness in the impurity of her uncleanness.

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

And you shall not take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life.

Do not deprive one another, unless it is with consent for a time, so that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. And come together again so that Satan does not tempt you for your incontinence.

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father or the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you shall not uncover her nakedness.

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

If any man takes a wife and goes in to her, and hates her,

His disciples said to Him, If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not good to marry.

And if a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, so that there may be no wickedness among you.

And you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress by becoming another man's wife.

Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,

But I say to you that whoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever shall marry her who is put away commits adultery.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother's wife. It is your brother's nakedness.

And to the married I command (not I, but the Lord), a woman not to be separated from her husband.

You shall not lie with mankind as with womankind. It is abomination to God.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

And Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife. And when he went in to her, Jehovah made her conceive. And she bore a son.

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

If a girl who is a virgin is engaged to 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 a man who commits adultery with a man's wife, who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

If he takes himself another wife, her food, her clothing, and her duty of marriage shall not be lessened.

then the man who lay with her shall give to the girl'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.