Bible Verses about “sex”

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”

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

“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.”

“And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

“Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”

“Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”

“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.›”

“The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”

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

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

“¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”

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

“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

“[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.”

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

“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake [my] love, until he please.”

“My beloved [is] mine, and I [am] his: he feedeth among the lilies.”

“I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;”

“Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.”

“This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters [of grapes].”

“How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!”

“¶ I [am] my beloved's, and his desire [is] toward me.”

“Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.”

“And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth [down] sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.”

“Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.”

“Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, [whether] the tender grape appear, [and] the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.”

“The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates [are] all manner of pleasant [fruits], new and old, [which] I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.”

“Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.”