35 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

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

that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" -- but the immoral person sins against his own body.

sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers -- in fact, for any who live contrary 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 do not have self-control, let them get married. For it is better to marry than to burn with sexual desire.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Some of you once lived this way. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.

In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

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

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters -- with complete purity.

Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.

Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and there is a seminal emission, they must bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;

If a virgin is engaged to a man and another man meets her in the city and has sexual relations with her,

For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise by understanding what the Lord's will is.

To the married I give this command -- not I, but the Lord -- a wife should not divorce a husband

These are the ones who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from humanity as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb,

So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

The Lord said to Moses, "Go to the people and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and make them wash their clothes

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.