【Top】55+ Bible Verses About Waiting Until Marriage - KJV Scriptures

“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh”

— Genesis 2:24

“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh”

— Ephesians 5:31

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”

— 2 Corinthians 6:14

“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband”

— 1 Corinthians 7:2

“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered”

— 1 Peter 3:7

“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge”

— Hebrews 13:4

“Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder”

— Matthew 19:6

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body”

— 1 Corinthians 6:18

“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints”

— Ephesians 5:3

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it”

— 1 Corinthians 10:13

“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication”

— 1 Thessalonians 4:3

“I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please”

— Song of Solomon 2:7

“And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure”

— Esther 1:8

“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God”

— 2 Corinthians 7:1

“I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please”

— Song of Solomon 3:5

“Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body”

— 1 Corinthians 6:13

“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible”

— Matthew 19:26

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”

— Hebrews 11:1

“But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway”

— 1 Corinthians 9:27

“It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife”

— 1 Corinthians 5:1

“The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife”

— 1 Corinthians 7:4

“Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency”

— 1 Corinthians 7:5

“And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife”

— Exodus 22:16

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land”

— 2 Chronicles 7:14

“But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood”

— Acts 15:20

“That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well”

— Acts 15:29

“She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more”

— John 8:11

“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman”

— 1 Corinthians 7:1

“Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity”

— 1 Timothy 4:12

“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand”

— 1 Corinthians 10:8

“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God”

— Matthew 5:8

“And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord”

— Acts 22:16

“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh”

— 1 Corinthians 6:16

“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John”

— Revelation 1:1

“And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed”

— 2 Corinthians 12:21

“Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually”

— 1 Chronicles 16:11

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind”

— 2 Timothy 1:7

“Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God”

— 1 Corinthians 10:31

“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”

— John 14:6

“Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love”

— Proverbs 5:19

“And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”

— Matthew 19:5

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service”

— Romans 12:1

“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying”

— Romans 13:13

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me”

— Galatians 2:20

“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please”

— Song of Solomon 8:4

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

— 1 Corinthians 6:19

“Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life”

— Proverbs 4:23

“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord , she shall be praised”

— Proverbs 31:30

“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God”

— Ephesians 5:5

“For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness”

— 1 Thessalonians 4:7

“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners”

— 1 Corinthians 15:33

“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord”

— Proverbs 18:22

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness”

— Galatians 5:19

“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry”

— Colossians 3:5

“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul”

— 1 Peter 2:11

“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart”

— 2 Timothy 2:22