Bible Verses about “having children outside of marriage”

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

“But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.”

“Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,”

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”

“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

“But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.”

“Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.”

“A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.”

“Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”

“but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

“But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;”

“There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world--how she may please her husband.”

“but he who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife.”

“This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.”

“Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”

“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

“For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,”

“I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.”

“that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,”

“If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.”

“not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;”

“"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.”

“You didn't choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

“"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall not commit adultery;'”

“I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me, and I in him, the same bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

“If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.”

“A bastard shall not enter into the assembly of Yahweh; even to the tenth generation shall none of his enter into the assembly of Yahweh.”

“"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”

“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.”

“A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.”

“You are already pruned clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.”

“You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.”

“Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.”

“Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can't bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.”

“"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.”

“Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.”

“Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.”

“"I am the true vine, and my Father is the farmer.”

“"In this is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.”

“If a man doesn't remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.”

“Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.”

“Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.”

“Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore. A Song of Ascents. By David.”

“But all these things will they do to you for my name's sake, because they don't know him who sent me.”

“"When the Counselor has come, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will testify about me.”

“If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.”

“He who hates me, hates my Father also.”

“I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.”

“Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”