21 Bible Verses about Chastity

for out of the heart proceed wicked reasonings, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:

but that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idol [sacrifices], and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

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

Yet I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there some who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to lay a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices, and to commit whoredom.

and they repented not of their murders, nor of their magical arts, nor of their whoredom, nor of their thefts.

Let us walk becomingly as in the face of day, not in revels and drunkenness, not in impurities and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

Therefore I am decided, that we give no unnecessary disquietude to those who from the heathen have turned to God: but that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idol [sacrifices], and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.

But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

I have written unto you in an epistle that you should not associate with fornicators. Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters: for then must ye indeed go out of the world. But now I have written unto you not to associate with him, if any man, professing to be a brother, be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such a one not even to eat.

Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body. Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

But flee youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

Beloved, I exhort you, as strangers and sojourners, Abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul;

AND I saw, and lo, a lamb stood upon the mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty-four thousand, having the name of his Father inscribed on their foreheads. And I heard a voice from heaven, as the sound of many waters, and as the roar of loud thunder; and I heard the sound of harpers harping on their harps: and they sang as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living beings, and the presbyters: and no person could learn that song, but the hundred forty-four thousand, who were redeemed from the earth.read more.
These are they who have not defiled themselves with women; for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth: these have been redeemed among men, as first-fruits to God, and to the Lamb.

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

And the Pharisees coming to him, put a question to him, Is it lawful for a husband to put away his wife? tempting him. He answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you? They said, Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away.read more.
Then Jesus answering said unto them, For the hardness of your hearts he wrote you that ordinance. But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female; and said, For this cause shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall adhere to his wife; and they two shall be one flesh: so that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath yoked together, let no man separate. And in the house the disciples again asked him of this matter. And he said unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her: and if a wife put away her husband, and marrieth another, she committeth adultery.

Ye have heard that it was said to those of old, "Thou shalt not commit adultery:" but I say unto you, That every one who looketh upon a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

thou that sayest, Do not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that holdest idols in abomination, dost thou commit sacrilege?