Bible Verses About Pregnancy Before Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for pregnancy before marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,434 votes, led by Deuteronomy 22:28-29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pregnancy Before Marriage
Deuteronomy 22:28-29143 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;
Hebrews 13:4135 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 John 1:994 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4085 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 7:3673 votes
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 Corinthians 6:18-2068 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Psalms 51:558 votes
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Luke 16:1851 votes
Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.
Jeremiah 1:547 votes
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Ephesians 5:346 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Hebrews 11:645 votes
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-544 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Exodus 21:22-2540 votes
If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman’s husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.
Matthew 5:2839 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.
1 Thessalonians 4:333 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Psalms 139:13-1631 votes
For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.
Psalms 51:5-730 votes
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Hosea 2:530 votes
For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.
Hosea 4:626 votes
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
1 Corinthians 6:1825 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Isaiah 7:1424 votes
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Ephesians 5:3122 votes
For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
John 3:1620 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.
Philippians 4:1320 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Proverbs 22:618 votes
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
What does the Bible say about pregnancy before marriage?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 22:28-29 on the subject of pregnancy before marriage. Across 1,434 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 John 1:9, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.