Bible Verses About Sexuality
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sexuality, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 2,443 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 Sexuality
Hebrews 13:4113 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Leviticus 18:2295 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Matthew 5:2885 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.
Matthew 19:482 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 Corinthians 6:982 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,
Leviticus 20:1377 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 Corinthians 6:9-1077 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,
1 Corinthians 6:1869 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Genesis 2:2465 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 7:259 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Romans 1:26-2758 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:
Ephesians 5:346 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 6:1945 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
Colossians 3:545 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Matthew 19:4-640 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,
Jude 1:737 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 Timothy 1:1036 votes
For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
Genesis 1:2733 votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Proverbs 5:18-1933 votes
Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
1 Corinthians 6:18-2033 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-533 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 6:9-1132 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,
1 Timothy 1:9-1031 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 1:2730 votes
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Genesis 19:1-3829 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;
What does the Bible say about sexuality?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of sexuality. Across 2,443 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Leviticus 18:22, Matthew 5:28, Matthew 19:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.