Bible Verses about โchildren born out of wedlockโ
The Bible contains 23 verses about children born out of wedlock across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โBut if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.โ
โBut, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.โ
โBut I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.โ
โDon't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.โ
โLet the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.โ
โFlee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.โ
โYet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.โ
โThe wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.โ
โNow concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.โ
โBut this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.โ
โSo that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."โ
โFor if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,โ
โA bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.โ
โBut if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.โ
โBehold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.โ
โFor I don't know what I am doing. For I don't practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.โ
โPurify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.โ
โMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.โ
โThe times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,โ
โJesus answered them, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you don't know where I came from, or where I am going.โ
โThe fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.โ
โBehold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.โ
โContend with your mother! Contend, for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband; and let her put away her prostitution from her face, and her adulteries from between her breasts;โ
