Bible Verses About Having Children Outside of Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for having children outside of marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 828 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 Having Children Outside of Marriage
Deuteronomy 23:2112 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.
Hebrews 13:4103 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Timothy 5:865 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.
Genesis 2:2451 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Galatians 2:2037 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
1 Corinthians 7:3935 votes
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 10:1331 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.
1 Corinthians 7:32-3529 votes
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
1 Corinthians 7:228 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:1827 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Matthew 5:27-2826 votes
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
John 3:1626 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.
John 15:1-2725 votes
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Psalms 121:1-824 votes
I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
Proverbs 5:18-1921 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
1 Corinthians 6:1317 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.
Romans 5:816 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-516 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
2 Timothy 3:1616 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
2 Chronicles 7:1415 votes
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Matthew 5:3214 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.
John 1:114 votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 Corinthians 14:1-4014 votes
Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Matthew 19:4-613 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
Romans 8:2912 votes
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
What does the Bible say about having children outside of marriage?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 23:2 on the subject of having children outside of marriage. Across 828 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Timothy 5:8, Genesis 2:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.