22 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

"You shall not commit adultery.

Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification:that you abstain from sexual immorality;

"I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

"Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler--not even to eat with such a one.

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,

They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.