22 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

Do not commit adultery.

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

We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood.

Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

This is the will of God, for your sanctification (holiness) (purification), that you should abstain from fornication.

I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.

Do not lust after her beauty in your heart. Do not let her attract you with her eyelids.

Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

I find what was worse than death is the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God will escape from her. But she will capture the sinner.

I wrote you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother who is a fornicator, or who is greedy, or who worships idols, or constantly gets drunk, or cheats people. Do not even eat with such a person.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).

They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more).

They have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin! They entice unsteady persons. Their hearts are full of covetousness. They are children of cursing.

The mouth of the adulterous is a deep pit. The one who is cursed by Jehovah will fall into it.

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

Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.