28 Bible Verses about Chastity

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:

But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.

Thou shalt not give thy strength to women, and thy ways to the destroying of kings.

Having eyes full of an adulteress, not ceasing from sin; decoying unstable souls: having a heart exercised with covetousness; children of a curse:

Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

And likewise indeed these dreaming truly defile the flesh, and despise dominion, and defame glories.

The mouth of the strange woman a deep pit: and he cursing Jehovah shall fall there.

For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil: And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps will hold fast to hades. read more.
Lest thou shalt make level the path of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt not know. And now, ye sons, hear to me, and ye shall not depart from the words of my mouth. Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house: Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the cruel: Lest strangers shall be filled with thy strength, and thy labors in the house of strangers; And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness,

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths. For she cast down many wounded, and the strong all being slain by her. Her house the ways to hades, going down to the chambers of death.

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? having taken the members of Christ, shall I make members of a harlot? It may not be. Or know ye not that he joined to a harlot is one body? for they shall be, he says, they two into one flesh. And he joined to the Lord is one spirit. read more.
Flee fornication. Every sin which if a man do is without the body; but he committing fornication sins against his own body.

Or know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration.

For wisdom shall come into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul. Meditation shall watch over thee, understanding shall guard thee:

My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee. Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes. Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the tablet of thine heart read more.
Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding: To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.

For the time of life passed over sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the nations, having gone in licentiousness, eager desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings, and criminal idolatries:

And now I wrote to you not to mix together, if any called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or intoxicated, or rapacious; not to eat with such.

And Abimelech came not near to her: and he will say, Lord, wilt thou also slay a just nation?

And Abimelech will say, What this thou didst to us? nearly one of the people lay with thy wife, and thou broughtest blame upon us. And Abimelech will command all the people, saying, He touching this man and his wife, dying, shall die.

But I say to you, That every one seeing a woman, to eagerly desire her, has already committed adultery with her, in his heart.

I cut out a covenant for mine eyes; and why shall I show myself attentive to a virgin?

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwells in you? If any one destroy the temple of God, him will God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which ye are.

And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, Idolatry, charm, enmities, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intriguings, seditions, sects Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Thou shalt not look upon wine when it shall be red, when it shall give its eye in the cup, it will go about in uprightnesses. Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper. Thine eyes shall see strange women, and thy heart shall speak perverseness.

And I find bitter above death the woman that her heart it is snares and nets, her hands are bonds: the good one before God shall escape from her, and he sinning shall be taken by her.

And it will be after these words, and his lord's wife will lift up her eyes to Joseph, and she will say, Lie with me. And he will refuse, and will say to his lord's wife, Behold, my lord knew not what is with me in the house, and all which is to him he gave into my hand; Nothing is great in this house above me: and he kept not back anything from me except thee, because thou his wife: and how shall I do this great evil and sin before God? read more.
And it will be in her speaking to Joseph day by day, and he listened not to her to he by her, to be with her.

And it will be at the time of the evening, and David will rise from off his bed, and will go upon the roof of the king's house: and he will see from the roof a woman washing herself; and the woman good of aspect exceedingly. And David will send and seek for the woman, and say, Is not this Bath-Sheba, daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? And David will send messengers and take her: and she will come in to him, and he will lie with her; (and she being consecrated from her uncleanness:) and she will turn back to her house.

And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;

Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.

Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word; Having beheld in fear your pure turning back.

And he will say, Blessed thou to Jehovah, my daughter: thou didst make good thy mercy at the last more than the beginning, so that thou wentest not after the young men, if poor and if rich. And now, my daughter, thou shalt not fear; all which thou shalt say, I will do to thee: for all the gate of my people will know that thou art a woman of power.

And it will be after these words, and his lord's wife will lift up her eyes to Joseph, and she will say, Lie with me. And he will refuse, and will say to his lord's wife, Behold, my lord knew not what is with me in the house, and all which is to him he gave into my hand; Nothing is great in this house above me: and he kept not back anything from me except thee, because thou his wife: and how shall I do this great evil and sin before God? read more.
And it will be in her speaking to Joseph day by day, and he listened not to her to he by her, to be with her. And it will be about this day, and he will come into the house to do his work: and no man from the men of the house there in the house. And she will seize him by his garment, saying, Lie with me. And he will let go his garment in her hand, and will flee and come forth without And it will be when she saw that he let go his garment in her hand and will flee without, And she will call the men of her house and will say to them, saying, See ye, he brought to us a Hebrew man to mock us: he came to me to lie with me, and I shall cry with a great voice. And it will be as he heard me that I lifted up my voice and I will cry, and he will let go his garment by me, will flee and come forth without And she will leave his garment by her till his lord came to his house. And she will speak to him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant which thou broughtest to us, came in to me to mock me. And it will be as I lifted up my voice, and I will cry out, and he will let go his garment by me and will flee without And it will be as his lord heard the words of his wife which she spake to him, saying, According to these words thy servant did to me; and his anger will be kindled. And Joseph's lord will take him and put him into the house of the fortress, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he shall be there in the house of the fortress.

Lodge this night, and it being in the morning, if he will redeem thee, good; he shall redeem: and if he desire not to redeem thee, and I redeemed thee, Jehovah lives: lie down till morning.

And she will go down to the threshing-floor' and she will do according to all that her mother-in-law commanded her. And Boaz will eat and drink, and his heart will be done good to; and he will go to lie down upon the end of the heap: and she will come secretly and she will uncover from his feet, and lie down. And it will be in the middle of the night, and the man will be terrified: and he will turn and behold a woman lying from his feet read more.
And he will say, Who art thou? And she will say, I am Ruth thy servant: and spread thy wing over thy servant, for thou a blood relation. And he will say, Blessed thou to Jehovah, my daughter: thou didst make good thy mercy at the last more than the beginning, so that thou wentest not after the young men, if poor and if rich. And now, my daughter, thou shalt not fear; all which thou shalt say, I will do to thee: for all the gate of my people will know that thou art a woman of power. And now that truly if I a blood relation: and also there is a blood relation nearer than I. Lodge this night, and it being in the morning, if he will redeem thee, good; he shall redeem: and if he desire not to redeem thee, and I redeemed thee, Jehovah lives: lie down till morning.

and thou shalt not commit adultery,

But I say to you, That every one seeing a woman, to eagerly desire her, has already committed adultery with her, in his heart.

There are they who were not contaminated by women; for they are virgins. These are they following the Lamb wherever he should lead. These were purchased from men, first fruits to God and the Lamb.

For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:

I cut out a covenant for mine eyes; and why shall I show myself attentive to a virgin?