Bible Verses about “premarital sex”
The Bible contains 21 verses about premarital sex across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,”
“for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”
“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”
“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”
“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”
“But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.”
“Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,”
“But if they don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.”
“Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”
“nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.”
“For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,”
“But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;”
“that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,”
“Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;”
“not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;”
“Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.”
“"If a man entices a virgin who isn't pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.”
“If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.”
“but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.”
“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.”