17 Bible Verses about Avoid Immorality

"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

"that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

"As for the Gentile believers, we wrote giving judgment that they should abstain from anything sacrificed to an idol, from blood, from what is strangled, and from fornication."

Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

Take care lest there be any fornicator or scorner like Esau among you, who for one meal sold his birthright.

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

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

I told you in my letter not to associate with the immoral. Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether. But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

and lest when I come again my God may humble me before you, and lest I shall mourn for many those who have sinned before, and have not repented of the impurity and immorality and wantonness which they have practised.

"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

but because there is so much immorality let each man have his own wife; and let each women have her own husband.