Bible Verses About No Sex Before Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for no sex before marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,508 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 No Sex Before Marriage
Hebrews 13:4675 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:1-40577 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Exodus 22:16328 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.
Ephesians 5:5291 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.
Genesis 2:24248 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20233 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 6:18207 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 7:2164 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-18154 votes
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Ephesians 5:1-33122 votes
Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
Galatians 5:19117 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Mark 10:6-9112 votes
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
1 Timothy 4:12106 votes
Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Jude 1:7103 votes
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Ephesians 5:398 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
John 14:1591 votes
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
Exodus 22:16-1781 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.
Matthew 5:27-2876 votes
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Colossians 3:1-2574 votes
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2 Corinthians 12:2170 votes
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Exodus 20:1466 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Ephesians 4:2265 votes
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Acts 15:2055 votes
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
1 Corinthians 5:153 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.
Galatians 5:19-2150 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
What does the Bible say about no sex before marriage?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of no sex before marriage. Across 5,508 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Exodus 22:16, Ephesians 5:5. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.