Bible Verses About Living Together Before Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for living together before marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,854 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 Living Together Before Marriage
Hebrews 13:4440 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5220 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 7:2199 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40187 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 6:18182 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 6:18-20162 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Ephesians 5:5149 votes
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Matthew 5:28139 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.
Genesis 2:24-25130 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24128 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
2 Timothy 2:22124 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Corinthians 6:19-20122 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 Thessalonians 4:3118 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8108 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
John 4:16-18105 votes
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
1 Corinthians 7:39104 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.
Mark 7:21-23102 votes
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Matthew 5:32101 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.
1 Thessalonians 5:2298 votes
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
1 Corinthians 3:1692 votes
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?
Ephesians 5:390 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 6:1386 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.
Proverbs 5:18-1983 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
1 Corinthians 6:978 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,
Matthew 19:975 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.
What does the Bible say about living together before marriage?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of living together before marriage. Across 5,854 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.