Unmarried Sex

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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

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

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

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

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

Or 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 men, — read the full passage →

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

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 →

My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding: — read the full passage →

lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

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

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →

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

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

and is divided. So also the woman that is unmarried and the virgin is careful for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married is careful for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

(but should she depart, let her remain unmarried, or else be reconciled to her husband); and that the husband leave not his wife.

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

and great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there.

My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, — 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 birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.

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

And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. — read the full passage →

I think therefore that this is good by reason of the distress that is upon us, namely, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

And Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab:

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

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

and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Or 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 men,

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, And light unto my path.

Profane not thy daughter, to make her a harlot; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. — read the full passage →

Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell withyour wivesaccording to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God translated him: for he hath had witness borne to him that before his translation he had been well-pleasing unto God:

Let deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

So then both he that giveth his own virgin daughter in marriage doeth well; and he that giveth her not in marriage shall do better.

And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

But I would have you to be free from cares. He that is unmarried is careful for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord: — read the full passage →

Yet if the unbelieving departeth, let him depart: the brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us in peace.

But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

For there are eunuchs, that were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are eunuchs, that were made eunuchs by men: and there are eunuchs, that made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

For I hate putting away, saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, and him that covereth his garment with violence, saith Jehovah of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.

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

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

And 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 all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

But if any provideth not for his own, and specially his own household, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and unruly, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, — read the full passage →

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

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

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

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

But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching his own will, and hath determined this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin daughter, shall do well.

Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Or 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 men, — read the full passage →

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Howbeit, I had not known sin, except through the law: for I had not known coveting, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet:

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

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the gospel of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you, always in my prayers

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

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery. — read the full passage →

They say unto him, Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away?

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