33 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,

Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;

But I tell you that any one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of her unchastity, and marries another woman, is guilty of adultery."

Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite,

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

Like Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns near them, which gave themselves up to fornication, and fell into unnatural vice, these angels now stand out as a warning, undergoing, as they are, the punishment of aeonian fire.

Yet I have a few things against you--You have among you those who hold to the Teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.

But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with any one who, although a Brother in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping-no, not even to sit at table with such people.

and they did not repent of their murders, or their sorceries, or their licentiousness, or their thefts.

I, however, say to you that any one who divorces his wife, except on the ground of her unchastity, leads to her committing adultery; while any one who marries her after her divorce is guilty of adultery.

I gave her time to repent, but she is determined not to turn from her licentiousness.

For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,

But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

Not, of course, meaning men of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

With reference to the subjects about which you wrote to me: It would be well for a man to remain single.

Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people- -

Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.

That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'

As to the Gentiles who have become believers in Christ, we have sent our decision that they should avoid food offered to idols, and blood, and the flesh of strangled animals, and impurity."

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

for the immoral, for people guilty of sodomy, for slave-dealers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is opposed to sound Christian teaching--

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'