22 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband.

CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But if you marry, you do not sin and if the virgin marries she does not sin. But such will have affliction in the flesh; but I spare you.

Let the husband render to the wife her due, and in like manner also the wife the husband.

And the wife and the virgin are different; the unmarried woman cares for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy in body and spirit; but she that is married cares for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

And I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.

Withhold not yourselves from one another, except by agreement for a time that you may be at leisure for prayer, and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you by your incontinence.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

but he that is married cares for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

The disciples said to him, If the case of a man is thus with his wife, it is not expedient to marry.

Therefore while the husband lives, she shall be called an adulteress if she is married to another man; but if the husband has died, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if married to another man.

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,

But I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.

But the married I charge, not I, but the Lord, Let not a wife separate from her husband,

For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows, that it is good for them to continue as I am;

For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are married, but are as angels in heaven.