What Does the Bible Say About Marriage And Anal Sex?

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.

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 6 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.

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

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.

Ephesians 5:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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 6:13 ESV / 4 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.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 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.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 4 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.

Amos 8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land— not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

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.

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 6:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 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.”

1 Corinthians 6:9 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,

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

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.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 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, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 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 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.

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.”

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife.

Romans 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Matthew 19:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 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’?

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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.

Deuteronomy 23:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.

Genesis 38:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother's wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

36 Bible Verses about Marriage And Anal Sex

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Amos 8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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36 Bible Verses about Marriage And Anal Sex

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Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:2-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Amos 8:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:15-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 19:4-5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 23:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 38:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes