21 Bible Verses about Chastity

For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.

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

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those holding the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

and they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:

Therefore I judge, that we should not burden those from the Gentiles turning to God: but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.

Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body.

But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

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

I have written unto you in a letter to have no fellowship with fornicators; not at all with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and the extortioners, or with the idolators; since you ought therefore to come out of the world. For now I have written unto you not to keep company with him, if any one denominated a brother may be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a scold, or drunken, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat.

Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own; for you have been bought with a price: indeed glorify God in your body.

But fly from youthful lusts, and pursue righteousness, faith, divine love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a clean heart.

Beloved, I exhort you as pilgrims and strangers, to abstain from the carnal desire which wars against the soul;

And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father written on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the sound of many waters, and as the sound of a great thunder: and the sound which I heard was as the sound of harpers harping with their harps: and they are singing a new song before the throne, and in presence of the four living creatures, and the elders. And no one was able to learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who have been redeemed from the earth.read more.
These are they who have not been defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he may go. They have been redeemed from men, the first fruit unto God and the Lamb.

but if they do not contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

And the Pharisees having come forward asked Him, If it is lawful for a man to send away his wife? tempting Him. And He responding said to them, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses permitted to write a book of divorcement, and to send her away.read more.
Jesus said to them, On account of the hardness of your heart he wrote this commandment to you. But from the beginning of creation God made them male and female. On this account a man shall leave his father and his mother, and they two shall be one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. And what God joined together, let no man separate. And His disciples again around Him in the house asked Him. And He says to them, Whosoever may send away his wife, and marry another, commits adultery unto her. And if she having sent away her husband, may marry another, she commits adultery.

You have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say unto you that every one looking on a woman in order to lust after her hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

do you, who say not to commit adultery, commit adultery? do you, who abominate idolatry, rob temples?