Bible Verses About Shacking Up
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for shacking up, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,820 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 7:9. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Shacking Up
1 Corinthians 7:9201 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
Hebrews 13:4163 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:2106 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Romans 12:295 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Genesis 2:2494 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 6:1871 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Ephesians 5:2563 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Thessalonians 5:2263 votes
Abstain from all appearance of evil.
Revelation 21:863 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.
Romans 13:1461 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Matthew 19:548 votes
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?
1 Corinthians 8:945 votes
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
1 Corinthians 6:9-1038 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,
John 4:17-1836 votes
The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
1 Corinthians 7:10-1134 votes
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
1 Corinthians 5:930 votes
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
John 4:1828 votes
For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
Romans 12:1-227 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 John 1:1027 votes
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
Romans 13:1326 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Deuteronomy 22:2925 votes
Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
Matthew 9:6-825 votes
But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.
Ephesians 5:324 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Deuteronomy 22:2822 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;
Colossians 3:520 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 shacking up?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 7:9 on the subject of shacking up. Across 1,820 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 7:2, Romans 12:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.