Bible Verses About Pornography and Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for pornography and marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 422 votes, led by Matthew 5:28. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pornography and Marriage
Matthew 5:2869 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.
Hebrews 13:456 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:247 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:1842 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Galatians 5:19-2134 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Thessalonians 4:1-1832 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.
James 1:14-1527 votes
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Mark 7:20-2322 votes
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
1 Peter 2:1121 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Ephesians 5:28-3117 votes
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
1 Corinthians 6:9-1015 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 Peter 2:13-1415 votes
Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Colossians 3:513 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Peter 2:1-2512 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
What does the Bible say about pornography and marriage?
Readers most often cite Matthew 5:28 on the subject of pornography and marriage. Across 422 votes, 14 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 6:18. This page lists all 14 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.