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Premarital Sex

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Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 6:18–20

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:8–9

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

1 Corinthians 6:18

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Jude 1:7

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

1 Corinthians 6:9–10

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

2 Corinthians 12:21

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Matthew 5:28

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 6:15–17

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:9–11

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

Mark 7:20–23

He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:19–21

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

1 Corinthians 10:8

Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.

Mark 10:6–9

But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 13:4–8

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →

Matthew 19:1–30

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 6:15

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

Matthew 1:18

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 1:18–20

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

1 John 3:4

Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–4

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:8

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

1 Corinthians 7:1–5

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:32

but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

Matthew 15:19–20

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies. — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:1–33

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:5

Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Galatians 5:16

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Revelation 1:1

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;

1 Corinthians 5:1–13

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Mark 7:21

For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

1 Peter 1:14–16

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, — read the full passage →

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Jude 1:18–19

They said to you that “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.” — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:3–7

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →

Matthew 1:19

Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and not willing to make her a public example, intended to put her away secretly.

2 Peter 3:3

knowing this first, that in the last days mockers will come, walking after their own lusts,

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

Hebrews 13:3

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

Revelation 14:4

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Revelation 2:20

But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourwoman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

1 Corinthians 5:9–11

I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →

Luke 17:29–30

but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. — read the full passage →

Revelation 1:1–20

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:15–16

Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →

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