What Does the Bible Say About Dating Instructions?

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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;

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 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.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 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. 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.

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

Amos 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or the does of the field, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

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.

15 Bible Verses about Dating Instructions

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Amos 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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15 Bible Verses about Dating Instructions

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2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 12:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Amos 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes