17 Bible Verses about Licentiousness

But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery,

but I keep my body under, and enslave it, lest having preached the gospel to others, I myself may become disapproved.

lest, I again having come, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn over many of those having previously committed sins, and not having repented over the uncleanness and the fornication and debauchery which they have done.

But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, divisions, heresies, envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and things like unto these: which I tell you beforehand, as I did previously say to you, that those doing such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart; who being past feeling have given themselves up to debauchery, unto the working of all impurity with greediness.

for you are knowing this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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

not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;

For of these are those creeping into houses, and leading captive little, silly women laden with sins, being led by divers lusts,

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

But sin, taking occasion through the commandment, did work in me all concupiscence; for without law sin was dead.

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

And He said, Everything proceeding out from the man, that defiles the man. For within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil reasonings, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, impurity, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly.read more.
All these evils proceed out from within, and defile the man.

For the past time is sufficient to have wrought the will of the heathens, walking in impurities, in lusts, in wine-drinkings, in revelries, in intemperance, and in unlawful idolatries:

who being past feeling have given themselves up to debauchery, unto the working of all impurity with greediness. But you did not so learn Christ:

For certain men have crept in, who long ago were written down to this judgment, ungodly, transforming the grace of God into impurity, even denying Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.

who being past feeling have given themselves up to debauchery, unto the working of all impurity with greediness.