21 Bible Verses about Chastity

For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:

but to send to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood.

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

But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.

and did not change their minds [to turn] from their murders, nor from their magic arts, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelries and drinking, not in lewdness and excesses, not in strife and envy;

Wherefore I judge that we ought not to trouble those who turned to God from the gentiles, but to send to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood.

Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.

Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators; not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world. But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one.

Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body. Know you not that your bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit in you which you have from God, and you are not your own? For you are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

But avoid youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

BELOVED, I exhort you as strangers and foreigners, abstain from carnal desires, which war against the soul,

AND I saw, and behold, the Lamb stood on 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 like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder, and the voice which I heard was like harpers playing on their harps. And they sung a new song before the throne and before the four cherubs and the elders; and no one could learn the song except the hundred and forty-four thousand, who had been redeemed from the earth.read more.
These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins; these are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from men a first fruit to God and the Lamb,

but if they have not self-control, let them marry; it is better to marry than to be incontinent.

And the Pharisees came and asked him, to try him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses permitted us to write a bill of divorcement and put her away.read more.
And Jesus said to them, Because of your hardness of heart, he wrote you this ordinance; but from the beginning of creation, he made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and the two shall be one flesh; so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. What God therefore has yoked together, let not man separate. And his disciples asked him again, in the house, concerning this. And he said to them, Whoever puts away his wife and marries another, commits adultery with her; and if a woman puts away her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

You have heard that it was said, You shall not commit adultery; but I tell you, that every one who looks on a woman to desire her inordinately, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

You that command not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You that abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?