21 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

Still, if they cannot restrain themselves, let them marry. Better marry than be aflame with passion!

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

Now about the questions in your letter. It is an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman;

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

Of course, if you are actually married, there is no sin in that; and if a maid marries, there is no sin in that. (At the same time those who marry will have outward trouble ??and I would spare you that.)

The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his;

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another woman, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

Do not withhold sexual intercourse from one another, unless you agree to do so for a time in order to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again. You must not let Satan tempt you through incontinence.

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

the married man is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy his wife ??34 so he is torn in two directions. The unmarried woman or the maid is also anxious about the Lord's affairs, how to be consecrated, body and spirit; once married, she is anxious about worldly affairs, how best to satisfy her husband.

The disciples said to him, "If that is a man's position with his wife, there is no good in marrying."

Accordingly, she will be termed an adulteress if she becomes another man's while her husband is alive; but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of 'the husband,' so that she is no adulteress if she becomes another man's.

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband ??11 if she has separated, she must either remain single or be reconciled to him ??and a husband must not put away his wife.

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

To the unmarried and to widows I would say this: it is an excellent thing if like me they remain as they are.

At the resurrection people neither marry nor are married, they are like the angels of God in heaven.