Sex In Marriage

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

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.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. — read the full passage →

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine. — read the full passage →

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

And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — read the full passage →

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.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: — read the full passage →

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

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,

And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — read the full passage →

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. — read the full passage →

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; — read the full passage →

And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb.

For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the Lord hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. — read the full passage →

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

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

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.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: — read the full passage →

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: — read the full passage →

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

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. — read the full passage →

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God. — read the full passage →

Let all your things be done with charity.

Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

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.

When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

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.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. — read the full passage →

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

And I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: — read the full passage →

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. — read the full passage →

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.