Bible Verses About Kissing Before Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for kissing before marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,499 votes, led by Matthew 5:28. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Kissing Before Marriage
Matthew 5:28125 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
Galatians 5:16117 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Hebrews 13:4114 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 6:18105 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Romans 8:890 votes
So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Galatians 5:1987 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Hebrews 10:2682 votes
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
Genesis 29:10-1277 votes
And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
Ephesians 5:376 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 13:1-1053 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.
Romans 14:1-2352 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
1 Corinthians 6:1951 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 7:1-349 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Matthew 19:638 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
1 Timothy 5:235 votes
The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.
1 John 5:1734 votes
All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.
2 Timothy 2:2232 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Job 31:131 votes
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Psalms 1:229 votes
But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Ecclesiastes 3:829 votes
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
Revelation 2:3-2028 votes
And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.
Galatians 5:1-2626 votes
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Song of Songs 8:420 votes
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
Song of Songs 1:217 votes
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
1 Corinthians 7:3817 votes
So then he that giveth her in marriage doeth well; but he that giveth her not in marriage doeth better.
What does the Bible say about kissing before marriage?
Readers most often cite Matthew 5:28 on the subject of kissing before marriage. Across 1,499 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Galatians 5:16, Hebrews 13:4, 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.