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What Does the Bible Say About Shacking Up?

Here are 15 Bible verses about shacking up, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #11 Corinthians 7:9

    But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

    BSBBut if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

  2. #2Hebrews 13:4

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

    BSBMarriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

  3. #31 Corinthians 7:2

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

    BSBBut because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

  4. #4Genesis 2:24

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

    BSBFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

  5. #5Romans 12:2

    And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

    BSBDo not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

  6. #61 Corinthians 6:18

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

    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.

  7. #7Ephesians 5:25

    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

    BSBHusbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her

  8. #8Revelation 21:8

    But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

    BSBBut to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

  9. #91 Thessalonians 5:22

    Abstain from all appearance of evil.

    BSBAbstain from every form of evil.

  10. #10Romans 13:14

    But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

    BSBInstead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

  11. #11Matthew 19:5

    And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

    BSBand said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

  12. #121 Corinthians 8:9

    But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

    BSBBe careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

  13. #131 Corinthians 6:9-10

    Know 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.

    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.

  14. #14John 4:17-18

    The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

    BSB“I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband. In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”

  15. #151 Corinthians 7:10-11

    And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

    BSBTo the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

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