29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;

God has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity.

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

not that in this world you are to keep wholly aloof from such as they, any more than from people who are avaricious and greedy of gain, or from worshippers of idols. For that would mean that you would be compelled to go out of the world altogether.

Flee from fornication. Any other sin that a human being commits lies outside the body; but he who commits fornication sins against his own body.

fornicators, sodomites, slave-dealers, liars and false witnesses; and for whatever else is opposed to wholesome teaching

Or do you not know that your bodies are a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you--the Spirit whom you have from God?

If, however, they cannot maintain self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

Food of all kinds is meant for the stomach, and the stomach is meant for food, and God will cause both of them to perish. Yet the body does not exist for the purpose of fornication, but for the Master's service, and the Master exists for the body;

And all this describes what some of you were. But now you have had every stain washed off: now you have been set apart as holy: now you have been pronounced free from guilt; in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.

Now you know full well the doings of our lower natures. Fornication, impurity, indecency, idol-worship, sorcery;

Let marriage be held in honour among all, and let the marriage bed be unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming,

and that in this matter there be no encroaching on the rights of a brother Christian and no overreaching him. For the Lord is an avenger in all such cases, as we have already taught you and solemnly warned you.

Having therefore these promises, beloved friends, let us purify ourselves from all defilement of body and of spirit, and secure perfect holiness through the fear of God.

The unclean are shut out, and so are all who practise magic, all fornicators, all murderers, and those who worship idols, and every one who loves falsehood and tells lies.

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

Yet let us send them written instructions to abstain from things polluted by connexion with idolatry, from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

"How can this be," Mary replied, "seeing that I have no husband?"

the elder women too as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with perfect modesty.

Nor did they repent of their murders, their practice of magic, their fornication, or their thefts.

Do you not understand that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterwards ejected from the body?

You must abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear of these things, and it will be well with you. Farewell."

On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

But to those already married my instructions are--yet not mine, but the Lord's--that a wife is not to leave her husband;

These are those who had not defiled themselves with women: they are as pure as virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever He goes. They have been redeemed from among men, as firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

Therefore let us keep our festival not with old yeast nor with the yeast of what is evil and mischievous, but with bread free from yeast--the bread of transparent sincerity and of truth.

Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy.