36 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.

And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.