29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;

For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.

Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,

Not, of course, meaning men of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.

for the immoral, for people guilty of sodomy, for slave-dealers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is opposed to sound Christian teaching--

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?

But, if they cannot control themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.

Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,

These are the things on account of which the Wrath of God comes,

None of you over-reaching or taking advantage of his Brother in such matters. 'The Lord takes vengeance' upon all who do such things, as we have already warned you and solemnly declared.

With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest reverence for God, aim at perfect holiness.

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

"How can this be?" Mary asked the angel. "For I have no husband."

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

and they did not repent of their murders, or their sorceries, or their licentiousness, or their thefts.

"Do not you see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is afterwards expelled?

That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'

Therefore do not grow thoughtless, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

To those who are married my direction is-yet it is not mine, but the Master's-that a woman is not to leave her husband

These are the men who never defiled themselves in their intercourse with women; they are as pure as virgins. These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were redeemed as the first-fruits of mankind for God and for the Lamb.

Therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.