22 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and such immorality as is not even among the heathen??hat a man has taken his father's wife!

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.

Now concerning the question in your letter. It is well for a man to have no intercourse with a woman,

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

Yet if you do not marry, you have not done wrong; and if a girl marries, she has not done wrong. Such people, however, will have trouble in worldly affairs, and I wish to spare you.

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

"And I tell you that any man who divorces his wife for any cause except her unfaithfulness, and marries another woman, commits adultery."

Do not refuse one another, unless it is only temporary and by mutual consent, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again, lest through your lack of self-control Satan begin to tempt you to sin.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

but a married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how he may please his wife, and he is divided in his mind.

"If that is the position of a man in relation to his wife," answered the disciples, "it is better not to marry."

So then, if during her husband lifetime, she unites herself with another man, she will be counted an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the Law, so that she is no adulteress, even if she unites herself with another man.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, makes her an adulteress, and whoever marries her when so divorced, commits adultery.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

But to the unmarried, and the widows, I say that it is well for them to remain as I am.

"For in the resurrection men do not marry, nor are women given in marriage, but they are like angels in heaven.