Bible Verses About Intimacy

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

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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

And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.

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

For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

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

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

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.

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

I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me.

Now when I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord God, and thou becamest mine.

For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.

So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

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

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

If thou count me therefore a partner, receive him as myself.

No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.