17 Bible Verses about Licentiousness

Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness,

but I put my body under severe discipline, and bring it into subjection, lest, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn over many of those who have already sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness and lewdness and wantonness which they have committed.

Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, anger, party-spirit, divisions, sects, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; with respect to which, I tell you now, as I also told you in times past, that those who practice such things shall riot inherit the kingdom of God.

This I say, therefore, and appeal to you solemnly in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other Gentiles walk, in the error of their minds, darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.

For you know this, that no lewd nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and of God.

Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;

For of this sort are those who worm themselves into houses, and lead captive silly women that are laden with sins, and influenced by various desires,

so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, rendered active within me every evil desire. For without the law, sin was dead.

Let us walk in a becoming manner, as in the day; not in riotings and in drunkenness, not in lewdness and in wantonness, not in. contention and in envy:

And he said: What comes out of the man, is that which defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the purposes which are evil: adulteries, lewd actions, murders, thefts, schemes for extortion, wicked deeds, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, calumny, haughtiness, impiety.read more.
All these evil things come forth from within, and defile the man.

For the time past of our life should be enough for us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, while we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, revelings, drinkings, and unlawful idolatries.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned the Christ,

For some men have stealthily entered in, who were long ago appointed to this condemnation; ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God, and use it for lascivious purposes, and deny our only Sovereign and Lord, Jesus Christ.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to licentiousness, that they may work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.