Bible Verses About Fornication
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for fornication, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 18,656 votes, led by Hebrews 13:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Fornication
Hebrews 13:4837 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20805 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 7:2655 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Galatians 5:19-21630 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 6:18585 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
John 8:41-42465 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.
Matthew 5:32463 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Matthew 19:9434 votes
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 5:1434 votes
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
1 Corinthians 10:13415 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Revelation 21:8399 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.
1 Corinthians 6:13371 votes
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Mark 7:20-23346 votes
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Colossians 3:5344 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Jude 1:7340 votes
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Ephesians 5:3336 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 6:9-11335 votes
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Thessalonians 4:3-4319 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Exodus 22:16-17241 votes
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
Galatians 5:19231 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 John 1:9229 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 12:1-2221 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 2:14207 votes
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
Matthew 15:19171 votes
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
2 Timothy 2:22154 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
What does the Bible say about fornication?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of fornication. Across 18,656 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 6:18-20, 1 Corinthians 7:2, Galatians 5:19-21. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.