What Does the Bible Say About Bed?

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes

If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Psalm 149:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ...

Psalm 149:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. Let the godly exult in glory; let them sing for joy on their beds.

Psalm 139:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

Proverbs 26:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As a door turns on its hinges, so does a sluggard on his bed.

Psalm 63:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night;

Psalm 6:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.

Psalm 4:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,

1 Corinthians 7:12-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?

Proverbs 22:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts. If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

Psalm 36:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Job 33:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed and with continual strife in his bones, so that his life loathes bread, and his appetite the choicest food.

Job 27:13-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty: If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread. Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep. Though he heap up silver like dust, and pile up clothing like clay, he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver. ...

Job 17:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If I hope for Sheol as my house, if I make my bed in darkness, if I say to the pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’ where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?

Job 7:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’ then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions, so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my bones.

2 Samuel 13:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’”

2 Samuel 4:7-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night, and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The Lord has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.” But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the Lord lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity, when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news. How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”

1 Samuel 9:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.

Deuteronomy 3:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

(For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)

Leviticus 15:19-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“When a woman has a discharge, and the discharge in her body is blood, she shall be in her menstrual impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening. And everything on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean. Everything also on which she sits shall be unclean. And whoever touches her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. And whoever touches anything on which she sits shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening. Whether it is the bed or anything on which she sits, when he touches it he shall be unclean until the evening. ...

Leviticus 15:4-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean. And anyone who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Every bed on which the one with the discharge lies shall be unclean, and everything on which he sits shall be unclean.

Exodus 21:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,

Exodus 8:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.

Genesis 49:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes

When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 48:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And it was told to Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to you.” Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.

Genesis 47:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Job 31:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

1 Samuel 28:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.

1 Samuel 19:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats' hair at its head and covered it with the clothes. And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.” Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.” And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats' hair at its head.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

42 Bible Verses about Bed

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 149:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 149:4-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 139:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 26:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 63:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 6:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 4:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:12-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 22:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 36:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 33:19-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 27:13-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 17:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 7:13-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 13:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 4:7-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 9:25 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 3:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 15:19-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Leviticus 15:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 21:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 8:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 49:33 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 48:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 47:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 31:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 28:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 19:13-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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