Bible Verses About Marrying Cousins
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for marrying cousins, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 937 votes, led by Leviticus 18:6-16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Marrying Cousins
Leviticus 18:6-16139 votes
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 18:681 votes
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 18:1-3059 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Leviticus 18:1447 votes
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.
Leviticus 18:2239 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 18:838 votes
The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.
Leviticus 18:1730 votes
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.
1 Corinthians 6:930 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,
1 John 1:930 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Romans 14:1-2326 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
Genesis 20:1225 votes
And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.
Leviticus 18:1524 votes
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:6-1722 votes
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.
Leviticus 18:1122 votes
The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
Leviticus 18:1620 votes
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
Acts 15:2920 votes
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Leviticus 18:919 votes
The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
Deuteronomy 27:20-2319 votes
Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Leviticus 18:1018 votes
The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.
Genesis 2:2417 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
John 1:117 votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
1 Corinthians 5:117 votes
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
1 Peter 3:716 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.
Luke 1:3715 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
1 John 1:714 votes
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
What does the Bible say about marrying cousins?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 18:6-16 on the subject of marrying cousins. Across 937 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 18:6, Leviticus 18:1-30, Leviticus 18:14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.