19 Bible Verses about Masturbation

The Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him."

No trial has overtaken you that is not faced by others. And God is faithful: He will not let you be tried beyond what you are able to bear, but with the trial will also provide a way out so that you may be able to endure it.

But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to desire her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

But keep away from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faithfulness, love, and peace, in company with others who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

"'When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening, and he must wash in water any clothing or leather that has semen on it, and it will be unclean until evening.

The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?

For there are some eunuchs who were that way from birth, and some who were made eunuchs by others, and some who became eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who is able to accept this should accept it."

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

For those who live according to the flesh have their outlook shaped by the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit have their outlook shaped by the things of the Spirit.

Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

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

But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

because the person who sows to his own flesh will reap corruption from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest

because all that is in the world (the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance produced by material possessions) is not from the Father, but is from the world.