What Does the Bible Say About Kissing Before Marriage?

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 124 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 115 helpful votes

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 112 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 6:18 ESV / 104 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.

Romans 8:8 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

Galatians 5:19 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 81 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Genesis 29:10-12 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother. Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud. And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 75 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-10 ESV / 53 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 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; ...

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 51 helpful votes

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,

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 51 helpful votes

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

1 Corinthians 7:1-3 ESV / 49 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.

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 37 helpful votes

So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

1 Timothy 5:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

1 John 5:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin that does not lead to death.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Job 31:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes

But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Revelation 2:3-20 ESV / 28 helpful votes

I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’ ...

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...

Song of Solomon 8:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases.

1 Corinthians 7:38 ESV / 17 helpful votes

So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.

Song of Solomon 1:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine;

Song of Solomon 8:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother's breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Psalm 85:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

Genesis 29:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 12 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 7:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes

House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

Genesis 2:24-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 8 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 7:1-40 ESV / 8 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. ...

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 8 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.

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

2 Samuel 14:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then Joab went to the king and told him, and he summoned Absalom. So he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.

Exodus 18:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him. And they asked each other of their welfare and went into the tent.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Deuteronomy 24:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.

Ruth 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.

2 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 5:1-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed: shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” ...

Galatians 5:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

Genesis 33:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

Genesis 27:26-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come near and kiss me, my son.” So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, “See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed!

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Romans 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 2 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 30:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Three things are too wonderful for me; four I do not understand: the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

Proverbs 5:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

1 Samuel 20:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.

Exodus 4:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord said to Aaron, “Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

56 Bible Verses about Kissing Before Marriage

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:16 ESV / 115 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 112 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 104 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:8 ESV / 89 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 81 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 29:10-12 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 75 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 13:1-10 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 51 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:1-3 ESV / 49 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 19:6 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Timothy 5:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 5:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 31:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 1:2 ESV / 29 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:3-20 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 8:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:38 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 1:2 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 8:1 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 85:10 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 29:11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 19:14 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:24-25 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:25 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Samuel 14:33 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 18:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 24:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ruth 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 5:1-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Galatians 5:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 33:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 27:26-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 30:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 27:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

1 Samuel 20:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 4:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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