Love & Relationships
Bible Verses About having children outside of marriage
18 key scriptures
What does the Bible say about having children outside of marriage? Browse 18 carefully selected verses that illuminate this biblical theme.
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| Translation | Key Verse: Deuteronomy 23:2 |
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| King James (KJV) | “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.” |
18 Key Scriptures
“A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.”
“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
Hebrews 13:4KJV
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. house: or, kindred”
“Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Genesis 2:24KJV
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
“The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.”
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. common: or, moderate”
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
“Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
“But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: that belong: Gr. of the Lord”
“Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:”
Matthew 5:27KJV
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.”
John 15:1KJV
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16KJV
“A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. I will: or, Shall I lift up mine eyes to the hills? whence should my help come?”
Psalms 121:1KJV
“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”
“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Romans 5:8KJV
“Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Meats: not flesh only, but food of any kind”
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