28 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,

God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one.

that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives,

Fly from immorality! Any other sin a man commits is something outside his body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

immoral people, men sexually perverted, kidnapers, liars, perjurers, or whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit that is within you, which you have received from God? Besides, you are not your own;

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be on fire with passion.

It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.

It is on account of these things that God's anger is coming.

No one is to wrong or defraud his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all such things, as we told you before, in the most solemn terms.

So since we have promises like these, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves of everything that can defile body or spirit, and by reverence for God make our consecration complete.

The dogs, those who practice magic or immorality, murderers, idolaters, and anyone who loves falsehood or tells lies will be shut out of it.

So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.

but we should write to them to avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, immorality, the meat of strangled animals, and the tasting of blood.

Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, when I have no husband?"

older women like mothers, younger ones like sisters, with absolute purity.

and they did not repent of their murders, or their magic arts, or their immorality, or their thefts.

Can you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and then is disposed of?

that you avoid whatever has been sacrificed to idols, the tasting of blood and of the meat of animals that have been strangled, and immorality. Keep yourselves free from these things and you will get on well. Goodbye."

So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

To those already married my instructions are??nd they are not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to separate from her husband.

They are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women; they are celibates. It is they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been ransomed from among men as the first-fruits for God and the Lamb,

So let us keep the festival, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth.

for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice.