Bible Verses About Sex
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sex, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 18,930 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 Sex
Hebrews 13:41,214 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Genesis 2:241,073 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
1 Corinthians 7:3-5964 votes
Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
Genesis 1:28937 votes
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
1 Corinthians 6:18859 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 7:2769 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Proverbs 5:18-19656 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Song of Songs 8:4639 votes
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
Matthew 5:28612 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 4:3-5554 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 7:5448 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.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20429 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Song of Songs 7:6-13424 votes
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
Song of Songs 4:16411 votes
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.
Song of Songs 8:14407 votes
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
Song of Songs 2:16-17399 votes
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.
Colossians 3:5351 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Exodus 20:14332 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10266 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,
Ephesians 5:3266 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 6:13262 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.
Proverbs 6:32258 votes
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Genesis 39:7-10257 votes
And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.
Galatians 5:19-21235 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Leviticus 18:22216 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
What does the Bible say about sex?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of sex. Across 18,930 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 2:24, 1 Corinthians 7:3-5, Genesis 1:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.