Bible Verses About Unmarried Sex
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for unmarried sex, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 377 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 Unmarried Sex
Hebrews 13:440 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 7:231 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Colossians 3:525 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Corinthians 6:1823 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Matthew 5:2820 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.
Ephesians 5:320 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Genesis 2:2419 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 7:1-4019 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Ephesians 5:519 votes
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:316 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Matthew 5:3215 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
1 Corinthians 6:9-1015 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,
Galatians 5:19-2115 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Galatians 5:1914 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 6:1-2013 votes
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
Revelation 1:113 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Proverbs 5:1-2310 votes
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
John 3:16-1710 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 6:13-2010 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.
1 Corinthians 6:18-2010 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 7:510 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.
2 Corinthians 12:2110 votes
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
What does the Bible say about unmarried sex?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of unmarried sex. Across 377 votes, 22 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 7:2, Colossians 3:5, 1 Corinthians 6:18. This page lists all 22 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.