What Does the Bible Say About Living With Someone Before Marriage?

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 14 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 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 10 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;

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?” 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’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” ...

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 6 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.

John 8:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 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.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 5 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.

John 8:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Titus 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 3 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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

James 1:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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

Mark 10:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,

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.’ ...

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. ...

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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 6:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“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.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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

Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

27 Bible Verses about Living With Someone Before Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 14 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 8:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Titus 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 1:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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27 Bible Verses about Living With Someone Before Marriage

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1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 14 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Matthew 19:3-9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

John 8:32 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 8:34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Titus 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 1:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 51:1-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

1 Corinthians 6:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Isaiah 44:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote