35 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

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

For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.

[that] each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

By no means [did I mean] the sexually immoral people of this world or the greedy people and swindlers or idolaters, since then you would have to depart out of the world.

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

sexually immoral people, homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and {whatever} else is opposed to sound teaching,

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

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn [with sexual desire].

Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And some of you were these [things], but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Marriage [must be] held in honor by all, and the marriage bed [be] undefiled, because God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

because of which the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,

An illegitimate child may not come into the assembly of Yahweh; even [to] the tenth generation none {of his descendants} may come into the assembly of Yahweh.

not to transgress and to exploit his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the one who avenges concerning all these [things], just as also we told you beforehand and testified solemnly.

Therefore [since we] have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of body and spirit, accomplishing holiness in the fear of God.

Outside [are] the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral people and the murderers and the idolaters and everyone who loves and who practices falsehood.

Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,

but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?"

older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, with all purity.

and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.

Do you not understand that everything that enters into the mouth goes into the stomach and is evacuated into the latrine?

If [there is] a woman with whom a man lies down [and there is] an emission of semen, then they shall wash [themselves] with water, and they shall be unclean until the evening.

[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

"If it happens [that] a young woman, a virgin, [is] engaged to a man, [and] a man finds her in the town and lies with her,

Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

To the married I command--not I, but the Lord--a wife must not separate from [her] husband.

These are those who have not been defiled with women, for they are virgins. These [are] the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were bought from humanity [as] first fruits to God and to the Lamb,

So then, let us celebrate the feast, not with the old leaven or with the leaven of wickedness and sinfulness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes,

who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.