Bible Verses on Sexuality:

Based on The True Love Waits Bible

Non-italicized text is from the New Revised Standard Version Bible

P = listed under a previous subject

red = words of Christ

Abortion

Abstinence

Abuse

Appearance

Bible

Boredom

Communication

Courage

Dating

Decisions

Divorce

Doubt

Forgiveness

Freedom

Friendship

Growth

Happiness

Homosexuality

Integrity

Living Together

Love

Jesus' Love

Lust

Making a difference

Marriage

Masturbation

Music

Parents

Passion for God

Prayer

Pressure

Priorities

Proverbs

Right & Wrong

Self Image

Sex, Christian attitude

Sex, Consequences

Sex outside of marriage

Sin

Taking a Stand

Temptation

Thoughts

Virginity

Waiting

Abortion
Ex	1:17		midwives feared God
Ex	2:1		birth of Moses
Ex	21:22-25		injure a pregnant woman
Ps	139		you have searched me and known me.
Isa	49:1-5		The LORD called me before I was born
Jer	1:4-5		Before I formed you in the womb
Jer	20:14-18		did not kill me in the womb
Lk	1:15		even before his birth
Abstinence
1 Cor	6:18-20		sins against the body itself.
I Thes	4:3-5		control your own body
Abuse
Gen	16		God who sees me
Gen	34		Dinah & Shechemites
2 Sam	13:1-22		Amnon and Tamar
1 Chr	10:4		Death rather than abuse
Isa	50:1-9		The servant's obedience
Isa	52:13-53:12		The suffering servant
	1 Pet 2:20		do right and suffer for it:
	1 Cor 9:18		my rights
	Heb 10:33		partners with those so treated
Appearance
Gen	3:6		delight to the eyes
Gen	39:6		Joseph & Potiphar's wife
1 Sam	16:1-13		he was ruddy
Pr	31:30		Charm is deceitful
2 Cor	10:12		compare themselves with one another
1 Pet	3:1-7		gentle and quiet spirit
Bible
2 Tim	2:15		rightly explaining the word of truth.
Heb	4:12		word of God is living and active
Boredom
Ps	42:1-2		As a deer longs for flowing streams,
Mat	5:6		hunger and thirst for righteousness,
Mat	12:43-45		finds it empty
Communication
Pr	15:1		A soft answer turns away wrath
	wrath:
	Eph 4:26		Be angry but do not sin
Mat	12:36,37		every careless word
	careless:
	Heb 12:16		Esau's carelessness
	Eph 5:15		Be careful then how you live
Eph	4:15		speaking the truth in love
Eph	5:3		must not even be mentioned
1 Tim	5:1		younger women as sisters
Phil	4:8		whatever is true,
Col	4:6		speech always be gracious
Courage
Joshua
Deborah
Ruth & Boaz
	Ruth 1:20		Almighty has dealt bitterly:
	Job 1:20		Naked I came from my mother's womb
	Ps 22		why have you forsaken
Gen	24		Isaac & Rebekah
Esther
Dating
Pr	4:23		Keep your heart
1 Cor	6:14		bodies are members of Christ?
Col	3:17		And whatever you do,
1 Th	4:2-8 P		control your own body
Decisions
1 Ki	3:28		wisdom of God
Pr	15:22		many advisers
Pr	16		answer of the tongue is from the LORD
Col	3:17 P		in the name of the Lord Jesus
Titus	1:15		To the pure all things are pure
Divorce
Gen	2:24		one flesh
Dt	24:1-4		Laws concerning Marriage and Divorce
Mal	2:14		I hate divorce
Mat	1:19		planned to dismiss her quietly
Mat	5:31-32		causes her to commit adultery
Mat	19		Why then did Moses command
John	4:18		five husbands
1 Cor	7		Paul on marriage
Doubt
Rom	14:22		those who have doubts
1 Jn		know:
	4:13		we have seen and do testify
	Jn 21:24		This is the disciple
	Lk 1:1		after investigating everything carefully
	2 Pet 1:16		follow cleverly devised myths
Forgiveness
Ps	51		Create in me a clean heart
	v. 4		Against you, you alone:
	Lk 15:21		against heaven and before you
	Gen 39:8		sin against God
Ps	86:5		you, O Lord, are good and forgiving
Ps	103		who forgives all your iniquity
Isa	1:10-18		Come now, let us argue it out,
Mat	6:14		if you forgive others
Mat	18:12		does he not leave the ninety-nine
Mk	2:1-17		Son, your sins are forgiven
Lk	7:36-end		Sinful woman anoints Jesus
Lk	15:11		prodigal son
Jn	8:1-11		first to throw a stone at her
Rom	3:21		all have sinned
Freedom
Jn	8:31		truth will make you free
	truth:
	Jn 17:17		your word is truth
Rom	6:8		slaves of righteousness
1 Cor	6:19		you are not your own
Gal	5:1,13		submit again to a yoke of slavery, opportunity for self-indulgence
1 Pet	2:16		freedom as a pretext for evil
Friendship
1 Sam	18		David & Jonathan
	v.1		loved him as his own soul:
	Lk 10:27		neighbor as yourself:
			Lev 19:18... bear a grudge against any
1 Sam	13:3		Jonadab
Pr	17:17		A friend loves at all times
Pr	18:24		true friend sticks closer
Pr	22:24,25		do not associate with hotheads
1 Cor	15:33		Do not be deceived:
Growth
Mk	4:1-20		The Parable of the Sower
Happiness
Ps	23		I shall not want
	Ex 20:17		You shall not covet
Pr	10:24		desire of the righteous
Pr	14:13		Even in laughter the heart is sad
Mat	5:3-11		The Beatitudes
Jn	15:9-11		If you keep my commandments
James	1:2-5		Joy in trials
Ps	37:4		he will give you the desires of your heart
Homosexuality
Gen	19:1-11		Sodom and Gomorrah:
	Jer 23:14		like Sodom
	2 Pet 2:8		lawless deeds
	Jude 1:7		Likewise, Sodom and Gomorrah
Lev	18:22		abomination
Lev	20:13		abomination
Ez	16:49-50		guilt of your sister Sodom
Rom	1:26-27,32		God gave them up
1 Cor	15:33 P		Bad company ruins good morals.
Integrity
Mat	6:22		if your eye is healthy
Titus	2:6		self-controlled
James	4:8		Draw near to God
Living Together
1 Th	4:3-5 P		abstain from fornication
Heb	13:4		God will judge fornicators and adulterers
Love
Deut	6:5		All heart, soul, might
	Jesus quotes in:
	Matt 22:36		greatest and first commandment
Hos	6:4		love is like a morning cloud
Mat	5:43-48		Love your enemies
Mat	25:31-46		sheep & goats
Lk	10:25-29		And who is my neighbor?
Jn	13:34-35		love one another
Jn	14:21-24		keep my commandments
Jn	15:9-17		keep my commandments
Jn	21:19		Feed my sheep
1 Cor	13		Love
1 Jn	3:18-23		in truth and action
Mk	12:30		more important than all whole burnt offerings
Jesus' Love
Rom	5:6		God proves his love
Eph	5:1		imitators of God
1 Jn	3:16		he laid down his life for us
1 Jn	4:7-end		God is love
Jn	3:16
Lust
2 Sam	13:15		loathing was even greater than the lust
	Ez 23:17-18		turned from them in disgust
Mat	5:27		looks at a woman with lust
Rom	1:24-27 P		degrading passions
Mk	9:42		cut it off
Job	31:1-12		made a covenant with my eyes
Eph	4,5		deluded by its lusts
2 Tim	2:22		pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace
Jam	1:14-15		tempted by one's own desire
1 Jn	2:15-17		Do not love the world
Making a Difference
1 Sam	17		David and Goliath
Mat	28:18-20		Great commission
Ac	5:27-32		We must obey God rather than
Rom	12:1-2		bodies as a living sacrifice
Marriage
Gen	1:27-28 P		Be fruitful and multiply
Job	2:9		we
Pr	5:15-19 P		Drink water from your own cistern
Pr	31 P		woman who fears the LORD
	Wise woman:
	Pr 14:1		wise woman builds her house
Mat	19:3-12 P		Jesus' teaching on divorce
Rom	7:2-3		as long as he lives
1 Cor	7:2-16 P		Paul on marriage
	v.4, Wife's body is husband's, vice versa:
	SS 2:16 P		My beloved is mine and I am his
2 Cor	6:14-18		Do not be mismatched with unbelievers
Eph	5:21-33 P		Be subject to one another
Masturbation
Gal	5:16		do not gratify the desires of the flesh
Phil	4:8		whatever is true,
2 Tim	2:22 P		Shun youthful passions
Music
Ps	146		Praise the LORD!
Ps	150		Praise him with
Col	3:16-17 P		psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
Parents
Pr	17:6		glory of children is their parents
Pr	19:18		Discipline your children
Lk	2:41		The Boy Jesus in the Temple
Rom	1:30		rebellious toward parents,
Eph	6:1		obey your parents in the Lord
2 Tim	3:2		disobedient to their parents,
Passion for God
Gen	39 P		and sin against God?
Deut	6:5 P		all heart, soul, might
Josh	24		but as for me and my household
	v. 15, choose:
	Jn 6:67		to whom can we go?
2 Chr	12:14		did not set his heart to seek the LORD
Jn	8:29		always do what is pleasing to him
Mk	8:34-38		lose their life for my sake
Rom	12:1-2 P		present your bodies
Heb	4:15		has been tested as we are
Prayer
Mat	7:7-11		Ask, Search, Knock
Mat	18:20		two or three are gathered in my name
Jn	9:31		God does not listen to sinners
Jn	15:1-8		ask for whatever you wish
Phil	4:6-7		but in everything by prayer
James	1:5-7		like a wave of the sea,
Pressure
Ex	32		Golden calf
1 Ki	18:16-45		Elijah & priests of Baal
Dan	3 P		Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
Dan	6		Daniel & lions
Rom	12:1-2 P		Do not be conformed
Priorities
Deut	6:4-6 P		write them on the doorposts
Ps	1		like trees planted by streams of water
Mat	6:25-34		do not worry
Mk	8:34-38 P		gain the whole world and forfeit
Jn	13:34-35 P		new commandment
Rom	12:1-2 P		so that you may discern
Col	3:1-2		seek the things that are above
1 Tim	6:11		pursue righteousness
2 Cor	10:12, 18		compare themselves with one another
Proverbs
Pr	2:16		saved from the loose woman
Pr	5
Pr	6:20-7:27
Pr	20:16
Pr	22:14		deep pit
Pr	23:27-28		narrow well
Pr	29:3		squander one's substance
Pr	30:20		I have done no wrong.
Right & Wrong
Jer	3:22		delusion
1 Cor	10:6		examples for us
Col	2:8,23		philosophy and empty deceit
Dan	3 P		Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
Dan	6 P		Daniel & lions
Gal	6:9		not grow weary in doing what is right
1 Th	4:3-8 P		rejects not human authority but God
	v.8, Rejecting Holy Spirit:
	Acts 5		Ananias & Saphira
2 Th	3:13		not be weary in doing what is right
James	4:1		ask wrongly
	How to ask:
	1 Jn 3:22		if our hearts do not condemn us
	1 Jn 5:14		according to his will
	Mat 7:7		give good things
1 Th	5:21		test everything
Self Image
Gen	1:26-29 P		in our image
Ps	8:5		a little lower than God,
Ps	103:14		we are dust
Ps	139 P		fearfully and wonderfully made
	v.1, searched me,
	and v.19, that you would kill the wicked:
	Ps 7:9		Plea for Help against Persecutors
	Job 13:9-28		can you deceive him
	Rev 2-3		Messages to 7 churches
	Heb 4:12 P		before him no creature is hidden
Pr	22:2		LORD is the maker of them all
Isa	41:14		you worm Jacob
Rom	12:3		not to think of yourself more highly
	1 Cor 10:11		if you think you are standing,
	Eph 6:10		strong in the Lord
	1 Tim 3:6		may be puffed up with conceit
1 Cor	1:26		God chose what is foolish
Gal	6:3-5		think they are something
Phil	1:21		living is Christ and dying is gain
Phil	4:1-13		I can do all things through him
1 Cor	3:16		you are God's temple
Sex, Christian Attitude
Song Sol
Pr	5:18-19 P		wife of your youth
Gal	5:16-25		do not gratify the desires of the flesh
1 Th	4:3-8 P		God did not call us to impurity
Sex, Consequences
Ec	7:26		woman who is a trap
2 Sam	11-12		David & Bathsheba
	Ps 51 P		broken spirit
Rom	6:21		The end of those things is death.
1 Cor	6:9-20 P		sins against the body itself
	v.19, temple:
	1 Cor 3:16		God will destroy that person
Gal	6:7		reap whatever you sow
Eph	4:17		darkened in their understanding
Sex Outside of Marriage
2 Sam	11-19		Consequences of David's adultery
Pr	7:6-27 P		street near her corner
1 Cor	6:12-20 P		not for fornication but for the Lord
	v.14, raise us by his power:
	Rom 6:13		brought from death
Sin
Gen	3		The First Sin and Its Punishment
	v. 8, Walking with God:
	Gen 5:24		Enoch walked with God
	Gen 6:9		Noah walked with God
	Deut 34:10		knew face to face
Isa	53:6		All we like sheep have gone astray
	1 Pet 2:20		have returned to the shepherd
Isa	59		iniquities have been barriers
	barriers:
	Is 1:1		Trample my courts no more
	Josh 7		The Sin of Achan and Its Punishment
	Ps 22:1		why have you forsaken me?
Mat	5:29-30		tear it out and throw it away
Rom	1:18-20 P		wrath of God is revealed
Rom	3:23		all have sinned
Rom	6:23		wages of sin is death
Heb	12:1		sin that clings so closely
1 Jn	1:8		we deceive ourselves
1 Jn	1:9-10		If we confess our sins
Taking a Stand
Mat	5:10-12		Blessed are those who are persecuted
Rom	8:35		more than conquerors
Heb	10:32-39		abandon that confidence
	v. 35, confidence:
	Heb 11:13		died in faith
	Heb 11:25		choosing rather to share ill-treatment
	Heb 11:39		did not receive what was promised
1 Pet	3:13-18		Always be ready
Ac	5:41		worthy to suffer dishonor
Temptation
2 Cor	11:14		disguises himself as an angel of light
Gen	39 P		Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
	v. 20, put him into the prison:
	1 Pet 3:14		suffer for doing what is right
Mat	4:1-11		The Temptation of Jesus
1 Cor	6:18 P		temple of the Holy Spirit
1 Cor	10:13		the way out
	way out:
	Dan 3		Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
	Ec 7:26 P		one who pleases God escapes her
	Gen. 39 P		ran
Gal	5:7		Such persuasion
2 Tim	2:22 P		pursue righteousness,
1 Tim	5:1		younger women as sisters
James	1:12-14		I am being tempted by God
James	4:7		Resist the devil,
1 Jn	3:20		God is greater than our hearts
Job	36:21
Heb	4:15 P		yet without sin
Heb	11:25		fleeting pleasures of sin
Thoughts
2 Cor	10:4,5		take every thought captive
Phil	4:8 P		think about these things
Rom	13:14		make no provision for the flesh
	Eph 5:10 P		find out what is pleasing to the Lord
Virginity
Mat	5:8 P		pure in heart
2 Cor	11:2-3		present you as a chaste virgin
Rev	14:4		they are virgins
Waiting
Ps	27:14		wait for the LORD!
Ps	130:5		and in his word I hope
Heb.	11:9		looked forward to the city
Heb	13:4		bed be kept undefiled