Bible Verses about “virginity before marriage”

“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”

“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.”

“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.”

“¶ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;”

“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.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”

“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”

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

“Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife [see] that she reverence [her] husband.”

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

“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.›”

“¶ Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman.”

“So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.”

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.”

“For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:”

“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;”

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.”

“For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.”

“That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,”

“That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.”

“Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so [let] the wives [be] to their own husbands in every thing.”

“Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.”

“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”

“For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.”

“This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.”

“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them].”

“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,”

“Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;”

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

“Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is].”

“And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:”

“¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”

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

“Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;”

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

“And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.”

“¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”

“Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”

“For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:”

“¶ Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;”

“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”

“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

“Be not ye therefore partakers with them.”