29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

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

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

and that every one of you should possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

but I did not mean not at all with the whoremongers of this world, or the covetous, or rapacious, or idolaters: since ye must then go out of the world.

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

parricides, murderers, whoremongers, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, false-swearers, and if there be any thing else contrary to that sound doctrine,

What! 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 the gift of continence, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but 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, such as, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it becometh saints:

for which things the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

That no one over-reach, or wrong his brother in any thing: because the Lord is an avenger of all such crimes, as we also told you before, and testified to you.

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

But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and practiseth falshood.

Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Then said Mary to the angel, How can this be, since I am a virgin?

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

neither did they repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their whoredom, nor of their thefts.

Do ye not yet know, that whatever goeth into the mouth passeth to the belly and is discharged downwards?

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from fornication: from which ye will do well to keep yourselves. Farewel.

Wherefore be not thoughtless, but consider what is the will of the Lord.

But those that are married, not I command, but the Lord, that the wife be not separated 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, as the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb.

Wherefore let us keep the feast, not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavening of sincerity and truth.

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to commit all uncleanness with greediness.