Bible Verses about “having children outside of marriage”

“‹For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.›”

“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”

“All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:”

“Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”

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

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

“¶ The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.”

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

“‹But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.›”

“But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:”

“There is difference [also] between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please [her] husband.”

“But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please [his] wife.”

“And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.”

“‹Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.›”

“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”

“That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;”

“‹If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.›”

“Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”

“‹This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.›”

“‹Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and› [that] ‹your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.›”

“¶ ‹Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:›”

“‹I am the vine, ye› [are] ‹the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.›”

“‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›”

“¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.›”

“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.”

“Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body [is] not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”

“‹Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.›”

“[Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.”

“‹Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.›”

“‹Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.›”

“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”

“‹Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.›”

“‹These things I command you, that ye love one another.›”

“‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.›”

“‹Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every› [branch] ‹that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.›”

“¶ ‹I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.›”

“‹Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.›”

“‹If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast› [them] ‹into the fire, and they are burned.›”

“¶ ‹As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.›”

“The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.”

“The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.”

“‹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.›”

“¶ ‹But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,› [even] ‹the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:›”

“‹If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.›”

“‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.›”

“‹These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and› [that] ‹your joy might be full.›”

“Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”