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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.

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.

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →

Genesis 1:28

God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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.

1 Corinthians 7:2

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

Proverbs 5:18–19

Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 8:4

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires. Friends

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 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 7:5

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.

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 →

Song of Solomon 7:6–13

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 4:16

Awake, north wind; and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.

Song of Solomon 8:14

Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

Song of Solomon 2:16–17

My beloved is mine, and I am his. He browses among the lilies. — read the full passage →

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;

Exodus 20:14

“You shall not commit adultery.

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 →

Ephesians 5:3

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

1 Corinthians 6:13

“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.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Genesis 39:7–10

After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.” — 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 →

Leviticus 18:22

“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.

Romans 13:13–14

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

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.

1 Corinthians 7:1–2

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

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

1 Thessalonians 4:3

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

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,

Romans 1:26–27

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 2:22

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Genesis 9:1

God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

Mark 7:20–23

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

1 Timothy 1:10

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

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 7:9

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

Genesis 2:25

The man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.

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 →

Job 31:1

“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

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 →

Proverbs 5:19

A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

Genesis 1:27

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

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

1 Corinthians 6:12–20

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything. — 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 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 John 2:15–16

Don’t love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him. — read the full passage →

Romans 1:24–27

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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 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.

Titus 2:12

instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

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 →

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.

Exodus 22:19

“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.

Romans 1:27

Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

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.

Genesis 1:27–28

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

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.”

1 Corinthians 10:8

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

1 Corinthians 6:11

Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;

Romans 13:9

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 1:26

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Genesis 4:1

The man knew Eve his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Cain, and said, “I have gotten a man with Yahweh’s help.”

Leviticus 18:23

“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–4

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

Matthew 5:27–30

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 1:2

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

1 Corinthians 7:1

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

Song of Solomon 1:1–17

The Song of songs, which is Solomon’s. Beloved — 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.”

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 15:19–20

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

Genesis 29:23

In the evening, he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him. He went in to her.

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.

Song of Solomon 7:7

This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

Song of Solomon 4:13–16

Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits: henna with spikenard plants, — read the full passage →

Genesis 4:17

Cain knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Enoch. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

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 →

Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

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.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

Song of Solomon 7:6–12

How beautiful and how pleasant you are, love, for delights! — read the full passage →

1 Kings 15:12

He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–7

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

2 Kings 23:7

He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in Yahweh’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

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.

Galatians 6:1–18

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

Deuteronomy 24:5

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business. He shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

Genesis 4:25

Adam knew his wife again. She gave birth to a son, and named him Seth, “for God has given me another child instead of Abel, for Cain killed him.”

Ecclesiastes 4:11

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

1 Thessalonians 4:3–8

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

Romans 12:1–21

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 31:2–3

“Oh, my son! Oh, son of my womb! Oh, son of my vows! — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:3–4

Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — 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 →

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