Bible Verses About Marriage and Virginity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marriage and virginity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,286 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 Marriage and Virginity
Hebrews 13:4158 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40152 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Genesis 2:24151 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Leviticus 21:13-14148 votes
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
1 Corinthians 7:8-9111 votes
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Corinthians 7:2105 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20102 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Exodus 22:16-1794 votes
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
Romans 12:1-279 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-875 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Ephesians 5:2569 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Ephesians 5:3358 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.
Deuteronomy 22:13-2152 votes
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
Matthew 19:651 votes
Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Genesis 2:1849 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.
1 Corinthians 6:12-2049 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Ephesians 5:340 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Thessalonians 4:3-437 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Colossians 3:1431 votes
And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Deuteronomy 22:23-2427 votes
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
Deuteronomy 22:20-2122 votes
But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:
Deuteronomy 22:28-2922 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;
Proverbs 31:1022 votes
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
Judges 21:11-1221 votes
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
2 Corinthians 11:221 votes
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
What does the Bible say about marriage and virginity?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of marriage and virginity. Across 2,286 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Genesis 2:24, Leviticus 21:13-14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.