Bible Verses About Premarital Sex
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for premarital sex, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 15,889 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 Premarital Sex
Hebrews 13:41,070 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5711 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 7:2684 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20446 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 7:8-9434 votes
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
Ephesians 5:3429 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 6:18424 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Exodus 22:16-17391 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.
Jude 1:7368 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.
1 Corinthians 5:1360 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.
Colossians 3:5310 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Galatians 5:19307 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 6:9-10290 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,
Genesis 2:24271 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Acts 15:20270 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 7:9268 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Thessalonians 4:3265 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Deuteronomy 22:28-29228 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;
2 Corinthians 12:21227 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.
1 Corinthians 6:13224 votes
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
Matthew 5:28219 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.
Ezekiel 16:26-29207 votes
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
1 Corinthians 6:9202 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,
Deuteronomy 27:20-23198 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 20:11-14186 votes
And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
What does the Bible say about premarital sex?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of premarital sex. Across 15,889 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.