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What does the Bible say about premarital sex?
15 verses about premarital sex, ranked by the votes of OpenBible.info readers, with the King James text.
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Bible verses about premarital sex
- Hebrews 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 7 votes
- 1 Corinthians 7:2 — Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. 4 votes
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 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. 3 votes
- 1 Corinthians 7:8 — I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. 3 votes
- Ephesians 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 3 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. 2 votes
- Exodus 22:16 — 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 votes
- Acts 15:20 — But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. 2 votes
- 1 Corinthians 5:1 — It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. 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
- 1 Corinthians 7:9 — But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn. 2 votes
- Galatians 5:19 — Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 2 votes
- Colossians 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 2 votes
- Jude 1:7 — 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. 2 votes
Where these verses are
1 Corinthians (6), Genesis (1), Exodus (1), Acts (1), Galatians (1), Ephesians (1), Colossians (1), 1 Thessalonians (1), Hebrews (1), Jude (1)
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