Bible Verses About Sex in Marriage
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sex in marriage, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,804 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:1-40. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sex in Marriage
1 Corinthians 7:1-40467 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Hebrews 13:4448 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:5255 votes
Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
Genesis 2:24234 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Proverbs 5:15-19184 votes
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
1 Corinthians 7:3183 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2-5171 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Matthew 5:28137 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 Corinthians 7:2126 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:25118 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Proverbs 5:19109 votes
Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Exodus 20:1496 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 7:1-987 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Titus 1:1583 votes
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Leviticus 20:1378 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.
1 Peter 3:771 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.
Song of Songs 4:1067 votes
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!
1 Corinthians 6:1866 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Proverbs 18:2264 votes
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
Genesis 4:155 votes
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.
Ephesians 5:354 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Ephesians 5:3354 votes
Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Proverbs 5:18-1950 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Song of Songs 1:2-442 votes
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.
Colossians 3:541 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
What does the Bible say about sex in marriage?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:1-40 on the subject of sex in marriage. Across 4,804 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:5, Genesis 2:24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.