Bible verses about "dating" | NSB

³ Commit your works to Jehovah and your thoughts will be firmly established.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness? ¹⁵ And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom let him ask of God. He gives to all generously and without reproach and it will be given to him.

¹² Let no man look down on your youth. Be an example to the believers in speech and conduct, in love, in faith and chasteness.

³¹ Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.

² It is not good to be a person without knowledge. He who hurries often misses the way.

²² The man who finds a wife finds a good thing. He obtains favor from Jehovah.

³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain. But a woman who respects Jehovah will be praised.

¹¹ ‘I know the plans (intentions) (thoughts) that I have for you, says Jehovah. They are plans (intentions) for peace and not disaster. They are intentions to give you a future filled with hope.

¹ Concerning the things that you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch (have sex with) a woman. ² Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. ³ Let the husband fulfill his marital duties to his wife and also the wife to her husband. ⁴ The wife has no authority over her own body, but her husband does. Likewise also the husband has no authority over his own body, but his wife does. ⁵ Do not deprive each other except by mutual consent for a time. That way you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. ⁶ But I speak this by concession and not by commandment. ⁷ I prefer that all men were as I am. But every man has his proper gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that. ⁸ I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they stay unmarried like me. ⁹ But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. It is better to marry than to be inflamed [with lust]. ¹⁰ To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband. ¹¹ If she leaves, let her remain unmarried or become reconciled to her husband. A husband should not divorce his wife. ¹² To the others, I speak and not the Lord. If any brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him he should not divorce her. ¹³ And the woman who has an unbelieving husband, and he is willing to live with her, she should not divorce him. ¹⁴ For the wife sanctifies the unbelieving husband, and the husband sanctifies the unbelieving wife. Otherwise your children would be unclean. But now they are holy. ¹⁵ If the unbelieving leave, let him leave. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases for God has called us to peace. ¹⁶ Wife how do you know that you will save your husband? Husband how do you know whether you will save your wife? ¹⁷ But as God has distributed to every person so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the congregations. ¹⁸ Is any man called being circumcised? He should not become uncircumcised. Is any called who is not circumcised? He should not be circumcised. ¹⁹ Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing. Obey the commandments of God. ²⁰ Each man should remain in the same condition in which he was called. ²¹ Were you called being a slave? Do not let it worry you. But if you can become free, do so. ²² He who is called in the Lord, being a slave, is the Lord's freeman. Likewise also he who is called, being free, is Christ's slave. ²³ You are bought with a price. Stop being slaves of men. ²⁴ Brothers, let every man remain in the condition in which he was called. Abide with God. ²⁵ Now concerning virgins I have no commandment from the Lord. Yet I give my opinion as one who has obtained the mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

⁷ »I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the deer of the field: Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases.«

¹⁸ Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

³ This is the will of God, for your sanctification (holiness) (purification), that you should abstain from fornication. ⁴ Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? Or what communion does light have with darkness?

³³ Do not be deceived: Bad company corrupts good morals.

⁴ Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant (proud). ⁵ Love does not act indecently. It is not selfish. It is not provoked and does not take into account a wrong suffered. ⁶ Love does not rejoice with evil, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

²² Flee from youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, with those who call on the Lord with a clean heart.