What Does the Bible Say About Sex In The Bible?

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 6 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.

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 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.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 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 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten, and plead urgently with your neighbor. Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler. ...

1 Thessalonians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; ...

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 2 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. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ...

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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 is upon them.

Jude 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Matthew 5:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. ...

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

18 Bible Verses about Sex In The Bible

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jude 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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18 Bible Verses about Sex In The Bible

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Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:1-35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:1-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jude 1:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 5:27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Proverbs 7:1-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 1 helpful vote