17 Bible Verses about Licentiousness

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,

but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness, idolatry, magic, enmities, strife, envy, anger, contentions, dissensions, heresies, murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts, who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or impure, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

not with inordinate desires like the gentiles who know not God,

Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires,

that you may no longer live the rest of your time in the flesh according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.

But Sin having taken occasion through the commandment wrought in me every inordinate desire; for without the law sin was dead.

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

But he said, that which comes out of the man, this defiles him; for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, covetousness, malice, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.read more.
All these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.

For the time past is sufficient for us to have performed the will of the gentiles, walking in lewdness, inordinate desires, drunkenness, revellings, drinkings and unlawful idolatries,

who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ,

For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.