What does the Bible say about sex?

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

9 booksMost in Song of Solomon

Bible verses about sex

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. 6 votes
Hebrews 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 6 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. 5 votes
1 Corinthians 7:3 — Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. 5 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. 4 votes
Proverbs 5:18 — Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. 3 votes
Song of Solomon 8:4 — I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. 3 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. 3 votes
1 Thessalonians 4:3 — For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 3 votes
Exodus 20:14 — Thou shalt not commit adultery. 2 votes
Song of Solomon 2:16 — My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies. 2 votes
Song of Solomon 4:16 — Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. 2 votes
Song of Solomon 7:6 — How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! 2 votes
Song of Solomon 8:14 — Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. 2 votes
1 Corinthians 7:5 — 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 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

Where these verses are

Song of Solomon (5), 1 Corinthians (4), Genesis (2), Exodus (1), Proverbs (1), Matthew (1), Colossians (1), 1 Thessalonians (1), Hebrews (1)

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