What does the Bible say about marital sex?

20 verses about marital sex, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.

12 booksMost in 1 Corinthians

Bible verses about marital sex

1 Corinthians 7:1 — Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 17 votes
1 Corinthians 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 7 votes
Hebrews 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 7 votes
Genesis 2:24 — Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. 4 votes
Proverbs 5:15 — Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. 4 votes
Song of Solomon 7:6 — How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! 4 votes
Matthew 5:28 — But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. 4 votes
1 Corinthians 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 4 votes
1 Corinthians 7:2 — Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 3 votes
1 Corinthians 13:4 — Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 3 votes
Galatians 5:16 — This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 3 votes
1 Thessalonians 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 3 votes
Genesis 1:28 — And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. 2 votes
Genesis 2:25 — And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 2 votes
Leviticus 15:16 — And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. 2 votes
Deuteronomy 22:28 — 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; 2 votes
Proverbs 3:27 — Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. 2 votes
1 Corinthians 6:9 — 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, 2 votes
Ephesians 5:33 — Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband. 2 votes
Philippians 4:6 — Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 2 votes

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1 Corinthians (6), Genesis (3), Proverbs (2), Leviticus (1), Deuteronomy (1), Song of Solomon (1), Matthew (1), Galatians (1), Ephesians (1), Philippians (1), 1 Thessalonians (1), Hebrews (1)

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Bible verses about marital sex

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