Let’s deal with 25 Bible verses about relationships with boyfriends. Marriage doesn’t just come, there is a stage of dating, having a relationship with a boyfriend. This is the stage where a man asks a woman for a date. The sole essence of this stage is for both the man and woman to get to know themselves better before proceeding. At this stage, the man is still a mere boyfriend.
As against the belief by many that having a boyfriend is a sin especially as Christians, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having a boyfriend as a Christian lady. However, the purpose of the relationship with a boyfriend should be clearly defined. Remember the scripture said in Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. The concept of dating has been misconstrued. Many people believe having a boyfriend is an automatic pass to having sex. This is not right and God is not happy with that kind of relationship.
We have compiled a list of 25 Bible verses about relationships with boyfriends. These bible verses will open your understanding to define the purpose of your relationship. Also, it counsels you on how to know the right man to date or call a boyfriend.
1. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
2. Romans 12:1-2
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.
3. 1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
4. 2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
5. 1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.
6. 1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
7. Galatians 5:19-21
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
8. 1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers.
9. Matthew 5:27-28
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
10. Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
11. Deuteronomy 22:22
“If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel.
12. Ephesians 5:33
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
13. 1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
14. Leviticus 18:22
Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
15. Ephesians 4:2-3
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
16. 1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
17. Deuteronomy 25:5
“When brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a strange man. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her to himself as wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
18. Leviticus 15:18
If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.
19. Exodus 22:16
“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
20. Leviticus 20:21
If there is a man who takes his brother’s wife, it is abhorrent; he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness. They will be childless.
21. Ezekiel 44:25
They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves
22. 1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
23. 1 Corinthians 6:18
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. 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 holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
25. Matthew 5:28
But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
