29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

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

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

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

But not altogether with the lewd persons of this world, or the covetous, or the rapacious, or idolaters, for then ye must go out of the world.

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

Against whoremongers, sodomites, man-stealers, liars, perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to wholesome doctrine,

Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God?

But if they have not power over themselves, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn.

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy 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 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,

Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

But let not fornication, or any uncleanness, or covetousness be even named among you, as becometh saints:

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

That none circumvent or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have also told you before and testified.

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

Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and 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 of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts.

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

and things strangled and fornication; from which keeping yourselves ye will do well. Fare ye well.

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

The married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband.

These are they who had not been defiled with women; for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were bought from among men: first-fruits to God and the Lamb.

Therefore let us keep the feast; not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of wickedness and malignity, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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