Bible Verses About Marital Sex
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marital sex, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,946 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marital Sex
1 Corinthians 7:1-40534 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Hebrews 13:4224 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:9216 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Genesis 2:24138 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Proverbs 5:15-19132 votes
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Song of Songs 7:6-12111 votes
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
1 Corinthians 6:18111 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Matthew 5:28109 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.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5107 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 13:4-8101 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 7:281 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Galatians 5:1681 votes
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Proverbs 3:2773 votes
Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Ephesians 5:3373 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Genesis 1:2865 votes
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1 Corinthians 6:9-1156 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,
Deuteronomy 22:28-2954 votes
If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
Leviticus 15:16-1852 votes
And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even.
Philippians 4:650 votes
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
Genesis 2:2549 votes
And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Colossians 3:544 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 John 3:442 votes
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Galatians 5:1941 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 6:939 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,
Ephesians 5:3137 votes
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
What does the Bible say about marital sex?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:1-40 on the subject of marital sex. Across 2,946 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:9, Genesis 2:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.