Bible Verses About Past Relationships
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for past relationships, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 782 votes, led by Philemon 1:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Past Relationships
Philemon 1:1547 votes
For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever;
1 Corinthians 15:3343 votes
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Romans 12:240 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Ephesians 4:3238 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Proverbs 13:2035 votes
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Luke 1:3730 votes
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
2 Peter 3:928 votes
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
1 Peter 5:726 votes
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
1 John 1:926 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Corinthians 6:1425 votes
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
1 John 4:125 votes
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Proverbs 27:624 votes
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Philippians 3:1323 votes
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
1 Corinthians 6:1822 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 13:4-721 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Exodus 20:1220 votes
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Matthew 7:1220 votes
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.
2 Corinthians 5:1717 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
1 Peter 5:6-716 votes
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
John 3:1615 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Peter 3:715 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.
Ephesians 1:1114 votes
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Ephesians 4:31-3214 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
James 1:514 votes
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Genesis 2:2413 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
What does the Bible say about past relationships?
Readers most often cite Philemon 1:15 on the subject of past relationships. Across 782 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 15:33, Romans 12:2, Ephesians 4:32. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.