Scripture Cards: Marital Sex
12 Bible verses about marital sex to print, cut out and memorize. Choose the King James Version or the modern Berean Standard Bible.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:4 KJVBut if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
1 Corinthians 7:9 KJVTherefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24 KJVFlee 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 KJVBut 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 KJVFor this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 KJVNevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2 KJVThis I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16 KJVWithhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Proverbs 3:27 KJVNevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 KJVAnd God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Genesis 1:28 KJVKnow ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 KJVMarriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Hebrews 13:4 BSBBut if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
1 Corinthians 7:9 BSBFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24 BSBFlee 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 BSBBut 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 BSBFor it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 BSBBut because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
1 Corinthians 7:2 BSBSo I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:16 BSBDo not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
Proverbs 3:27 BSBNevertheless, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Ephesians 5:33 BSBGod blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
Genesis 1:28 BSBDo you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 BSBHow to memorize these verses
- Read the card aloud three times, saying the reference before and after.
- Cover the second half and recite it; then the whole verse.
- Keep one card visible for a week and review the older ones on Sunday.
- Track your progress with the scripture memory tracker.