42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations (who do not know God). There is a man who has his father's wife.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. It is better to marry than to be inflamed [with lust].

they will take the girl to the doorway of her father's house. The men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you.

Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

When a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to anyone and has sexual intercourse with her, he must pay the bride price and marry her.

This is the will of God, for your sanctification (holiness) (purification), that you should abstain from fornication.

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and has an emission of semen, they must wash themselves. They will be unclean until evening.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Do not have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter or a woman and her granddaughter. They are related. Doing this is perverted.

Concerning the things that you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch (have sex with) a woman.

Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of Jehovah. None of his descendants to the tenth generation shall enter the assembly of Jehovah.

If you marry you have not sinned. If a virgin marries she has not sinned. Those who marry will face many problems in this life and I want to spare you.

Let the husband fulfill his marital duties to his wife and also the wife to her husband.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. She who is married cares for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery. And he who marries her when she is divorced, commits adultery.

Do not have sex with any of your close relatives,

Never have sexual intercourse with a woman while she is unclean during her monthly period.

If a man is caught having sexual intercourse with another mans wife, then both of them shall die! Both the man and the woman committing adultery must be killed. Thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.

While your wife is living, never marry her sister as a rival wife and have sexual intercourse with her.

Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

especially your own mother. This would disgrace your father.

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

If a man marries a woman and has sex with her and then turns against her,

The disciples said to him: This being the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.

When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.

Do not have sexual intercourse with your neighbor's wife and become unclean with her.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she will be called an adulteress. If the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,

I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also commits adultery.

Do not have sexual intercourse with your sister-in-law. She is your brother's wife.

To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.

Do not have sexual intercourse with a man as with a woman. It is disgusting.

Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!

Boaz took Ruth to be his wife. He slept with her and Jehovah enabled her to conceive and she gave birth to a son.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they stay unmarried like me.

Suppose there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man has sexual relations with her.

In the resurrection they will not marry nor be given in marriage. They will be like the angels in heaven.

If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death.

If a man takes a second wife, he must continue to give his first wife the same amount of food and clothing and the same rights that she had before.

The man who has sex with her must give to the girl's father fifty shekels of silver, and she will become his wife because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.