22 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

“You shall not commit adultery.

Do not give your strength to women,
Or your ways to that which destroys kings.

but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

“I have made a covenant with my eyes;
How then could I gaze at a virgin?

Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
Nor let her capture you with her eyelids.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.