42 Bible Verses about Sex Before Marriage

Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations -- as that one hath the wife of the father! --

and if they have not continence -- let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

then they have brought out the damsel unto the opening of her father's house, and stoned her have the men of her city with stones, and she hath died, for she hath done folly in Israel, to go a-whoring in her father's house; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

flee the whoredom; every sin -- whatever a man may commit -- is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

And when a man doth entice a virgin who is not betrothed, and hath lain with her, he doth certainly endow her to himself for a wife;

for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

'And a woman with whom a man lieth with seed of copulation, they also have bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

The nakedness of a woman and her daughter thou dost not uncover; her son's daughter, and her daughter's daughter thou dost not take to uncover her nakedness; they are her relations; it is wickedness.

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

honourable is the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

a bastard doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even a tenth generation of him doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah.

But and if thou mayest marry, thou didst not sin; and if the virgin may marry, she did not sin; and such shall have tribulation in the flesh: and I spare you.

to the wife let the husband the due benevolence render, and in like manner also the wife to the husband;

The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

'And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

None of you unto any relation of his flesh doth draw near to uncover nakedness; I am Jehovah.

'And unto a woman in the separation of her uncleanness thou dost not draw near to uncover her nakedness.

'When a man is found lying with a woman, married to a husband, then they have died even both of them, the man who is lying with the woman, also the woman; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of Israel.

'And a woman unto another thou dost not take, to be an adversary, to uncover her nakedness beside her, in her life.

Defraud not one another, except by consent for a time, that ye may be free for fasting and prayer, and again may come together, that the Adversary may not tempt you because of your incontinence;

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

The nakedness of thy father and the nakedness of thy mother thou dost not uncover, she is thy mother; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how he shall please the wife.

'When a man taketh a wife, and hath gone in unto her, and hated her,

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

And a man who taketh the woman and her mother -- it is wickedness; with fire they burn him and them, and there is no wickedness in your midst.

'And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

but I -- I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

The nakedness of thy brother's wife thou dost not uncover; it is thy brother's nakedness.

and to the married I announce -- not I, but the Lord -- let not a wife separate from a husband:

And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it is.

for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:

And Boaz taketh Ruth, and she becometh his wife, and he goeth in unto her, and Jehovah giveth to her conception, and she beareth a son.

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am;

'When there is a damsel, a virgin, betrothed to a man, and a man hath found her in a city, and lain with her;

for in the rising again they do not marry, nor are they given in marriage, but are as messengers of God in heaven.

And a man who committeth adultery with a man's wife -- who committeth adultery with the wife of his neighbour -- the adulterer and the adulteress are surely put to death.

If another woman he take for him, her food, her covering, and her habitation, he doth not withdraw;

then hath the man who is lying with her given to the father of the damsel fifty silverlings, and to him she is for a wife; because that he hath humbled her, he is not able to send her away all his days.