Bible Verses About Virginity

And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marry, she hath not sinned. Nevertheless such shall have trouble in the flesh: but I spare you.

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.

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

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

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.

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.

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

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.

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;

But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.

And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and bring forth the tokens of the damsel’s virginity unto the elders of the city in the gate:

A widow, or a divorced woman, or profane, or an harlot, these shall he not take: but he shall take a virgin of his own people to wife.

If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

And she said unto her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may go up and down upon the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my fellows.

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

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ask ye now among the heathen, who hath heard such things: the virgin of Israel hath done a very horrible thing.

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

And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

And he said, Go. And he sent her away for two months: and she went with her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.

Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

(As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number.

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

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

And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.