35 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

Yet not altogether with lewd persons of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must needs go out of the world.

Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body.

For lewd persons, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.

But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

For which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and lewd men, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from things strangled, and from blood.

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

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

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their lewdness, nor of their thefts.

Do ye not yet understand, that whatever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

That ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from lewdness: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Fare ye well.

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flattereth with her words;

If a damsel that is a virgin shall be betrothed to a husband, and a man shall find her in the city, and lie with her;

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

And to the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the first-fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

And the LORD said to Moses, Go to the people, and sanctify them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.