27 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

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

God did not call us to be impure but to be consecrated;

that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably,

I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether.

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine

Do you not know your body is the temple of the holy Spirit within you ??the Spirit you have received from God? You are not your own,

Still, if they cannot restrain themselves, let them marry. Better marry than be aflame with passion!

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

things that bring down the anger of God on the sons of disobedience.

As these great promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates either flesh or spirit; let us be fully consecrated by reverence for God].

Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

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

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters ??with perfect propriety.

nor did they repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual vice or of their thefts.

Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain,

abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye."

So do not be senseless, but understand what is the Lord's will;

For married people these are my instructions (and they are the Lord's, not mine). A wife is not to separate from her husband ??11 if she has separated, she must either remain single or be reconciled to him ??and a husband must not put away his wife.

They have not been defiled by intercourse with women ??they are celibates; they follow the Lamb wherever he goes; they have been ransomed from among men, as the first to be reaped for God and the Lamb.

So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity.