25 Bible Verses About Dating (ESV)

22 So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

7   I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
    by the gazelles or the does of the field,
  that you not stir up or awaken love
    until it pleases.

22   He who finds a wife finds a good thing
    and obtains favor from the LORD.

23   Keep your heart with all vigilance,
    for from it flow the springs of life.

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

30   Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain,
    but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

9 Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. 10 Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?

14   House and wealth are inherited from fathers,
    but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

3   “Do two walk together,
    unless they have agreed to meet?

8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

5:1 Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity.

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.