Bible Verses About Sleeping with a Woman
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sleeping with a woman, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 700 votes, led by Deuteronomy 22:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sleeping with a Woman
Deuteronomy 22:2279 votes
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4065 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Exodus 22:1659 votes
And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
Leviticus 18:2258 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
James 5:1651 votes
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Genesis 6:242 votes
That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Deuteronomy 22:28-2939 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;
1 Corinthians 5:935 votes
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
1 Corinthians 7:231 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Timothy 1:1028 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;
Ephesians 4:2224 votes
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Ephesians 5:21-3321 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Romans 7:1-618 votes
Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?
1 Samuel 1:6-716 votes
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
1 Timothy 3:8-1314 votes
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
1 Peter 2:1212 votes
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
1 John 4:912 votes
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Jude 1:712 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.
Genesis 1:2211 votes
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Leviticus 20:1311 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 Timothy 3:211 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
James 2:19-2211 votes
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
Deuteronomy 22:2810 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;
Proverbs 6:2910 votes
So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Matthew 19:810 votes
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
What does the Bible say about sleeping with a woman?
Readers most often cite Deuteronomy 22:22 on the subject of sleeping with a woman. Across 700 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, Exodus 22:16, Leviticus 18:22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.