Bible Verses About Intimacy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for intimacy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,231 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 Intimacy
Hebrews 13:4141 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40104 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Genesis 2:2494 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:1865 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Colossians 3:1965 votes
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.
Malachi 2:1564 votes
And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.
1 John 1:963 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-560 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Ephesians 5:359 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Proverbs 5:18-1955 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
John 17:355 votes
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
1 Corinthians 7:255 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Colossians 3:555 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Peter 3:7-1255 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 John 4:7-849 votes
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
John 15:1545 votes
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Galatians 5:1344 votes
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Galatians 5:19-2144 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 13:1-1339 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Genesis 2:18-2538 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Philippians 3:7-838 votes
But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Genesis 4:137 votes
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
Philippians 3:1035 votes
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Romans 1:26-2734 votes
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Genesis 2:1832 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
What does the Bible say about intimacy?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of intimacy. Across 3,231 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Genesis 2:24, 1 Corinthians 6:18. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.