17 Bible Verses about Avoid Immorality

But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood.

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

As touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written and determined, that they should observe no such thing; save only that they keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

Let us walk decently, as in the day; not in banqueting and drunken entertainments, not in uncleannesses and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

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

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

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

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

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

as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright:

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.

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

I wrote to you in an epistle, Not to converse with lewd persons. 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. But I have now written unto you, if any who is named a brother, be a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to converse with such an one, no, not to eat with him.

and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

Abraham did not thus. Ye do the deeds of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

But I have now written unto you, if any who is named a brother, be a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to converse with such an one, no, not to eat with him.

Yet, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife; and let every woman have her own husband.