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This collection has 19 Bible verses about dating: 6 from the Old Testament and 13 from the New Testament. 1 Corinthians appears most often (3 verses), across 15 books of Scripture.
What does the Bible say about dating? Read 19 carefully selected Bible verses about dating, with full scripture text you can save, share, and study.
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"Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?"
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?"
"Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body."
"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body."
"For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;"
"For 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:"
"Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life."
"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life."
"I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up, nor awaken love, until it so desires."
"I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please."
"Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things."
"Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised."
"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised."
"But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;"
"But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;"
"doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself; each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others."
"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others."
"Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?"
"Can two walk together, except they be agreed?"
"Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity."
"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity."
"But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well."
"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."
"Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; but in the hidden person of the heart, in the incorruptible adornment of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God very precious."
"Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price."
"Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers."
"Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge."
"A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones."
"A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones."
"Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up."
"Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up."
"In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;"
"Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;"
"Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”"
"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners."
"Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection."
"And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness."
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible and the King James Version (both public domain), checked word for word against the full text. Updated October 2, 2026.
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This collection has 19 Bible verses about dating: 6 from the Old Testament and 13 from the New Testament. 1 Corinthians appears most often (3 verses), across 15 books of Scripture. What does the Bible say about dating? Read 19 carefully selected Bible verses about dating, with full scripture text you can save, share, and study.
2 Corinthians 6:14: "Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?" 1 Corinthians 6:18: "Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body." 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5: "For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;" Full collection: 19 verses on this page (32% Old Testament, 68% New Testament).
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