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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.

Exodus 22:16–17

“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife. — read the full passage →

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 →

Genesis 2:24

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

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,

Deuteronomy 22:28–29

If a man finds a lady who is a virgin, who is not pledged to be married, grabs her, and lies with her, and they are found; — read the full passage →

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.

Ezekiel 16:26–29

You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger. — read the full passage →

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,

Deuteronomy 27:20–23

‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 22:20–21

But if this thing is true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the young lady; — read the full passage →

Leviticus 20:11–14

“‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them. — read the full passage →

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

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 →

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.

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 →

Leviticus 20:17

“‘If a man takes his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness; it is a shameful thing. They shall be cut off in the sight of the children of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness. He shall bear his iniquity.

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.

Leviticus 20:13

“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Leviticus 20:10

“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 22:16

“If a man entices a virgin who isn’t pledged to be married, and lies with her, he shall surely pay a dowry for her to be his wife.

1 Corinthians 10:8

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

Deuteronomy 22:23–24

If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her; — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:24–25

Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh. — read the full passage →

Mark 10:6–9

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

Proverbs 5:15–19

Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. — 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 →

Song of Solomon 7:6–12

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! — 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.

Leviticus 18:1–30

Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →

Genesis 2:1–25

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

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.”

Genesis 38:24

About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burnt.”

Genesis 1:1–31

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

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 →

Deuteronomy 22:13–21

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, — 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 →

Leviticus 20:19–21

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister; for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity. — 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.

Genesis 38:24–26

About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burnt.” — read the full passage →

Leviticus 18:11–14

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, conceived by your father, since she is your sister. — read the full passage →

Leviticus 18:6–10

“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:16

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

Leviticus 18:15–18

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law: she is your son’s wife. You shall not uncover her nakedness. — read the full passage →

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.

Deuteronomy 27:21

‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

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.

Ezekiel 16:26

You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.

Judges 19:1–3

In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah. — read the full passage →

Jeremiah 3:1

“They say, ‘If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man’s, will he return to her again?’ Wouldn’t that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me,” says Yahweh.

2 Samuel 5:13

David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he had come from Hebron; and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

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.

Deuteronomy 22:21

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

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 →

Genesis 1:27

God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.

1 Kings 11:2–3

of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 22:13–19

If any man takes a wife, and goes in to her, hates her, — read the full passage →

Ezekiel 16:15–17

But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was. — 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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