Bible Verses About Children Born Out of Wedlock
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for children born out of wedlock, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,098 votes, led by Deuteronomy 23:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Children Born Out of Wedlock
Deuteronomy 23:2409 votes
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.
1 Timothy 5:8118 votes
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.
Matthew 19:689 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Hebrews 10:2687 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
1 Corinthians 7:1-880 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Deuteronomy 24:1675 votes
The 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.
Psalms 51:5-774 votes
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Hosea 4:668 votes
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
Hosea 2:258 votes
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;
Hebrews 12:852 votes
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Acts 17:3051 votes
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
John 8:1449 votes
Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
1 Corinthians 6:1849 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Romans 7:1543 votes
For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Romans 12:1-240 votes
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.
Revelation 21:839 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Proverbs 22:633 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Jeremiah 1:532 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
2 Corinthians 5:1732 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Ephesians 2:829 votes
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Matthew 19:7-828 votes
They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
James 1:1728 votes
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
John 8:4125 votes
Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
John 3:1621 votes
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.
Genesis 2:2420 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
What does the Bible say about children born out of wedlock?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 23:2 on the subject of children born out of wedlock. Across 2,098 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Timothy 5:8, Matthew 19:6, Hebrews 10:26. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.