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‘Fornication’ in the Bible – All 62 Bible Verses / Bible Passages

Here you will find all Bible passages where / in which the word (or term) ‘Fornication’ occurs and how often this word occurs per biblical book. We searched the New and Old Testaments to really find all the verses and occurrences.

The term ‘Fornication’ comes from 62 times in the Bible. In the following you will find all relevant Bible passages divided according to the corresponding book. Here are the Bible verses about ‘Fornication’:

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Acts

but command them only to abstain from defilement by idols, from fornication, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Acts 15:20

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Acts: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Deuteronomy / 5. Mose

and accuses her of fornication, and brings her a bad name, saying, I have taken this woman; but when I approached her, I did not invent her as a virgin;
Deuteronomy / 5. Mose 22:14

they shall bring her to the door of her father’s house, and the people of her town shall stone her to death, because she has done a wicked thing in Israel by committing fornication in her father’s house. So you shall cut off evil from among you.
Deuteronomy / 5. Mose 22:21

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Deuteronomy / 5. Mose: 2

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Ephesians

But fornication and any uncleanness or covetousness shall not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
Ephesians 5:3

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Ephesians: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Ezekiel

You also took off your clothes and made yourself motley heights and then committed fornication such as has never happened before and will never be committed again.
Ezekiel 16:16

Wasn’t it enough of your fornication that you slaughtered my children and gave them up, passing them through the fire for them?
Ezekiel 16:21

You have built your high places on every street corner; and you have desecrated your beauty; you spread your legs against all who passed by, and you committed fornication worse and worse.
Ezekiel 16:25

You made courtship with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors who had great flesh, and you committed fornication more and more, to provoke me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:26

Then you committed even more fornication in the mercantile land of Chaldea. But even then you didn’t get enough.
Ezekiel 16:29

Else all harlots are given wages; but you give wages to all your wooers and give them presents, so that they come to you from all places and commit fornication with you!
Ezekiel 16:33

Your fornication is the opposite of that of other women; no one chases after you; and you give courtesy, but you will not be courted. This is how you become an adversary.
Ezekiel 16:34

They will burn your houses with fire and will punish you in the sight of many women. So I want to put an end to your fornication, and henceforth you will give no more court fees.
Ezekiel 16:41

Husbands have committed abominations with their neighbor’s wives, and defiled their own sons’ wives with fornication; in you they weakened their sisters, their father’s daughters.
Ezekiel 22:11

who practiced fornication in Egypt, in their youth they harried; there her breasts were pressed and her virgin breasts were touched.
Ezekiel 23:3

So she clung to them in her fornication, all Assyrians of choice, and defiled herself with all their idols, against which she was inflamed.
Ezekiel 23:7

Nor did she desist from her fornication with the Egyptians, because in her youth they lay with her, and touched her virgin bosom, and committed their fornication with her.
Ezekiel 23:8

When her sister Oholibah saw this, she abused her love even more than they did, and surpassed her sister in fornication.
Ezekiel 23:11

And she continued in her fornication; and she saw men drawn on the wall, effigies of the Chaldeans painted with red paint,
Ezekiel 23:14

When the Babylonians came to her and made love to her and defiled her with her fornication, so that she was defiled by them, her soul turned away from them.
Ezekiel 23:17

And when she revealed her fornication and exposed her nakedness, my soul turned away from her as my soul turned away from her sister.
Ezekiel 23:18

So I will put an end to your shameful deed and your fornication from the land of Egypt, so that you will not turn your eyes to them any more, and remember the land of Egypt no more.
Ezekiel 23:27

And these shall hate you, and shall take away all that you have acquired, and leave you naked and naked; and so will the shame of your fornication and your fornication and your adultery come to light.
Ezekiel 23:29

This will happen to you because of your fornication, which you committed with the Gentiles, and by their idols you defiled yourself.
Ezekiel 23:30

So I will put an end to fornication from the land, so that all women take warning and do not commit fornication like you.
Ezekiel 23:48

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Ezekiel: 20

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Galatians

But the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness;
Galatians 5:19

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Galatians: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Genesis / 1. Mose

But three months later it was reported to Judah, Tamar your son’s wife has been a fornicator, and behold, she has conceived of fornication. Judah said: Bring her out to be burned!
Genesis / 1. Mose 38:24

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Genesis / 1. Mose: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Hosea

In the beginning, when the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, Go, take a harlot woman and harlot children; for the land has become unfaithful to the LORD and commits fornication!
Hosea 1:2

(H2-4) Quarrel with your mother, quarrel! (for she is not my wife, and I am not her husband), that she may put away her fornication from her face, and her adultery from her breasts;
Hosea 2:4

(H2-7) For her mother committed fornication; she who bore her behaved shamefully; for she said, “I will run after my lovers, who give me my bread and water, my wool, my flax, my oil, and my wine.”
Hosea 2:7

Fornication, wine, and new wine are insane.
Hosea 4:11

My people shall consult his stick, and his staff shall make divination for him; for the spirit of fornication has deceived them into being unfaithful to their God.
Hosea 4:12

They sacrifice on the mountain-tops, and burn incense on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths; for her shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters commit fornication and your brides commit adultery.
Hosea 4:13

If you, O Israel, commit fornication, let not Judah sin. Do not go to Gilgal, go up to Beth-Aven, and swear, As the LORD lives!
Hosea 4:15

I know Ephraim well, and Israel is not hidden from me; I know that you, Ephraim, have committed fornication now, that Israel has defiled itself.
Hosea 5:3

Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God; for there is a spirit of fornication in their hearts, and they do not know the LORD.
Hosea 5:4

In the house of Israel I saw a terrible thing; there Ephraim commits fornication, Israel defiles himself.
Hosea 6:10

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Hosea: 10

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in 1. Corinthians

Flee fornication! Every sin that a man otherwise commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against his own body.
1. Corinthians 6:18

but in order to avoid fornication, let each have his own wife, and each have her own husband.
1. Corinthians 7:2

Let us not commit fornication, even as some of them committed fornication, and twenty-three thousand of them fell in one day.
1. Corinthians 10:8

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book 1. Corinthians: 3

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in 1. Thessalonians

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
1. Thessalonians 4:3

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book 1. Thessalonians: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in 2. Kings

When Jehoram saw Jehu, he said, Jehu, does that mean peace? But he said: What peace, with all the fornication and sorcery of your mother Jezebel?
2. Kings 9:22

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book 2. Kings: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in 2. Corinthians

that again, when I come, my God will humble me among you and mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented because of the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness that they committed.
2. Corinthians 12:21

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book 2. Corinthians: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Jeremiah

Lift up your eyes to the high places and see: Where have you not been violated? Sitting by the wayside, you waited for them like an Arab in the desert, profaning the land with your fornication and wickedness!
Jeremiah 3:2

And the LORD said unto me in the days of king Josiah: ‘Have you seen what the apostate Israel has done? She ran to every high mountain and under every green tree and committed fornication there.”
Jeremiah 3:6

And though she saw that I had cast out the apostate Israel for all her adultery, and had given her the bill of divorce, yet her unfaithful sister Judah was not afraid, but went and committed fornication also.
Jeremiah 3:8

And so it came about that by her frivolous fornication she profaned the land; and she committed adultery with wood and stone.
Jeremiah 3:9

your adulteries, your neighing, and your shameful fornication; for I have seen your abominations on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! Don’t you want to be clean? How long is it?
Jeremiah 13:27

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Jeremiah: 5

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Jude

how Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which, like them, indulged in extreme fornication and indulged in other flesh, now stand before us as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Jude 1:7

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Jude: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Colossians

Put to death therefore your members which are on earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Colossians 3:5

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Colossians: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Levitikus

Thou shalt not give up thy daughter to fornicate her, lest the land commit fornication and be full of vices.
Levitikus 19:29

If a priest’s daughter profanes herself by fornication, she has profaned her father; they shall be burned with fire!
Levitikus 21:9

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Levitikus: 2

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Marc

For from within, out of the heart of man, proceed evil thoughts, fornication, murder, theft,
Marc 7:21

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Marc: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Matthew

But I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except because of fornication, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Matthew 5:32

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false testimony, slander.
Matthew 15:19

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Matthew: 2

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Numbers / 4. Mose

And Israel dwelt in Sittim, and the people began to commit fornication with the daughters of Moab,
Numbers / 4. Mose 25:1

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Numbers / 4. Mose: 1

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Revelation

And I gave her time to repent, and she will not repent from her fornication.
Revelation 2:21

And they did not repent either of their murders, or of their sorcery, or of their fornication, or of their thievery.
Revelation 9:21

And another, second angel, followed him, saying, Babylon the great has fallen, fallen; she made all nations drink of the hot wine of her fornication.
Revelation 14:8

with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and from whose wine of fornication the inhabitants of the earth became drunk.
Revelation 17:2

For of the wine of her fierce fornication all nations have drunk, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from her violent lust.
Revelation 18:3

For true and just are his judgments; for he judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and demanded the blood of his servants at her hand!
Revelation 19:2

Scriptures related to Fornication in the biblical book Revelation: 6

Bible passages with ‘Fornication’ in Romans

let us walk decently as in the day, not in gluttony and gluttony, not in fornication and licentiousness, not in strife and envy;
Romans 13:13

Number of the word / term ‘Fornication’ in Romans: 1

These Bible verses are from a 1951 translation of the Royalty Free Schlachter Translation.

Number of Bible verses found on the topic: 62

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