Bible Verses About Same-sex Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for same-sex marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 30,630 votes, led by Ezekiel 23:20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Same-sex Marriage
Ezekiel 23:203,001 votes
For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
Leviticus 18:221,902 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:131,829 votes
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Romans 1:26-271,380 votes
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Genesis 2:24881 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Mark 10:6-9874 votes
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11752 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,
Matthew 19:4-6723 votes
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
1 Timothy 1:9-10655 votes
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
Romans 1:18-32516 votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Deuteronomy 22:5507 votes
The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Romans 1:1-32496 votes
Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God,
Genesis 19:1-38493 votes
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
Hebrews 13:4489 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Jude 1:7456 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.
Leviticus 18:1-30444 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
John 8:7-11411 votes
So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Matthew 19:1-30409 votes
And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan;
1 Corinthians 6:1-20357 votes
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
1 Corinthians 7:1-40318 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Genesis 2:1-25293 votes
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
Leviticus 20:1-27271 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Galatians 3:1-29262 votes
O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Judges 19:1-30258 votes
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth–lehem–judah.
Revelation 21:8257 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
What does the Bible say about same-sex marriage?
Readers most often cite Ezekiel 23:20 on the subject of same-sex marriage. Across 30,630 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 18:22, Leviticus 20:13, Romans 1:26-27. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.