kissing before marriage

The 16 most-voted verses about kissing before marriage, from 12 books, ranked by the OpenBible.info community.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:28 (BSB)

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Matthew 5:28 (KJV)

but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Matthew 5:28 (WEB)

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

Galatians 5:16 (BSB)

[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5:16 (KJV)

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5:16 (WEB)

Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Hebrews 13:4 (BSB)

Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:4 (KJV)

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Hebrews 13:4 (WEB)

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:18 (BSB)

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 (KJV)

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

1 Corinthians 6:18 (WEB)

Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 8:8 (BSB)

So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

Romans 8:8 (KJV)

Those who are in the flesh can’t please God.

Romans 8:8 (WEB)

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

Galatians 5:19 (BSB)

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Galatians 5:19 (KJV)

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Galatians 5:19 (WEB)

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Ephesians 5:3 (BSB)

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

Ephesians 5:3 (KJV)

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

Ephesians 5:3 (WEB)

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

Hebrews 10:26 (BSB)

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

Hebrews 10:26 (KJV)

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

Hebrews 10:26 (WEB)

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

1 Corinthians 6:19 (BSB)

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 (KJV)

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

1 Corinthians 6:19 (WEB)

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

Job 31:1 (BSB)

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Job 31:1 (KJV)

“I made a covenant with my eyes; how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

Job 31:1 (WEB)

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

Psalm 1:2 (BSB)

But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 1:2 (KJV)

but his delight is in the LORD’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 1:2 (WEB)

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

Ecclesiastes 3:8 (BSB)

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

Ecclesiastes 3:8 (KJV)

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

Ecclesiastes 3:8 (WEB)

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

Matthew 19:6 (BSB)

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

Matthew 19:6 (KJV)

So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.”

Matthew 19:6 (WEB)

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

1 Timothy 5:2 (BSB)

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

1 Timothy 5:2 (KJV)

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

1 Timothy 5:2 (WEB)

Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2 Timothy 2:22 (BSB)

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 (KJV)

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

2 Timothy 2:22 (WEB)

All unrighteousness is sin, yet there is sin that does not lead to death.

1 John 5:17 (BSB)

All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.

1 John 5:17 (KJV)

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is sin not leading to death.

1 John 5:17 (WEB)

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