What Does the Bible Say About Boyfriends And Girlfriends?

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 19 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 14:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 12 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 5:31 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”

Proverbs 6:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes

He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

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

Mark 7:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“You shall not commit adultery.

Luke 16:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 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.

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.

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Luke 6:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

Song of Solomon 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women.

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...

Mark 10:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Mark 10:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 3 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.

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

31 Bible Verses about Boyfriends And Girlfriends

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 30 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 26 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Mark 7:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Luke 16:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 6:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 10:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 10:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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31 Bible Verses about Boyfriends And Girlfriends

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1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV / 30 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV / 26 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes

John 14:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:31 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Proverbs 6:32 ESV / 12 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 11 helpful votes

1 John 1:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Mark 7:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Exodus 20:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Luke 16:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

2 Corinthians 6:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Luke 6:46 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 2:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Mark 10:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Mark 10:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 26:39 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 19:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 22:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 John 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes