42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

It is reported commonly that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she may die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to be guilty of lewdness in her father's house: so shalt thou remove evil from among you.

Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body.

And if a man shall entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

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

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son's daughter, or her daughter's daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

But if thou marry, thou hast not sinned: and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such will have trouble in the flesh; but I spare you.

Let the husband render to the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife to the husband.

There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy, both in body and in spirit: but she that is married, is anxious 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 lewdness, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoever marrieth her who is put away, committeth adultery.

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.

Also thou shalt not approach to a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.

If a man shall be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou remove evil from Israel.

Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to vex her, to uncover her nakedness besides the other in her life-time.

Defraud ye not one the other, except with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan may not tempt you for your incontinence.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

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

If any man shall take a wife, and go in to her, and hate her,

His disciples say to him, If the case of the man is so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

And if a man shall take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they: that there be no wickedness among you.

Moreover, thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbor's wife, to defile thyself with her.

So then, if while her husband liveth, she is married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

But I say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of lewdness, causeth her to commit adultery: and whoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery.

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother's wife: it is thy brother's nakedness.

And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in to her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.

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

If a damsel that is a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her;

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

And the man that committeth adultery with another man's wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

If he shall take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage shall he not diminish.

Then the man that lay with her shall give to the damsel's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.