Bible Verses About Virginity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for virginity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,249 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 Virginity
Hebrews 13:486 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Genesis 2:2484 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 7:282 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:8-981 votes
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-870 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Revelation 14:467 votes
These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
1 Corinthians 6:18-2064 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Deuteronomy 22:13-2156 votes
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
1 Corinthians 6:9-1145 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,
Mark 10:6-839 votes
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Romans 12:1-239 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.
1 Corinthians 7:32-3527 votes
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
Exodus 22:16-1726 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.
2 Corinthians 11:224 votes
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-524 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Matthew 1:2322 votes
Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
1 Corinthians 6:1820 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Deuteronomy 22:2119 votes
Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 22:28-2919 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;
Isaiah 7:1419 votes
Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Leviticus 21:1317 votes
And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Deuteronomy 22:1-3017 votes
Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.
Judges 19:2414 votes
Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.
Esther 2:214 votes
Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
1 Corinthians 7:914 votes
But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
What does the Bible say about virginity?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 13:4 on the subject of virginity. Across 1,249 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 2:24, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 1 Corinthians 7:8-9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.