29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

For God did not call us to live in uncleanness, but in purity.

that every one of you should know how to procure for himself his own vessel in purity and honor,

certainly not meaning the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and extortioners, or idolaters; for to do this ye must go out of the world.

Flee fornication. Every other sin which a man may commit, is apart from the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to the sound teaching,

Know ye not, that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and that ye are not your own?

but if they cannot control themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

Meats are for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will make an end of both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

And such were some of you; but ye were washed, but ye were made holy, but ye were accepted as righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such as fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

Let marriage be honored in all respects, and the bed be undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,

on account of which things cometh the wrath of God.

that no one should go beyond and overreach his brother in the matter; because the Lord is the avenger in respect to all these things, as we also told you before and solemnly testified.

Having then these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loveth and practiseth falsehood.

Make dead therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.

Then said Mary to the angel, How shall this be, since I know not a man?

the elder women, as mothers; the younger, as sisters, with all purity.

and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Do ye not understand, that whatever entereth the mouth goeth into the stomach, and is cast out into the drain?

to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Farewell."

Wherefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

But to those who are married it is my command, yet not mine, but the Lords: Let not the wife separate herself from her husband,

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, a firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

So then let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to wantonness, to work all uncleanness in greediness.