16 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

But what I wrote was that you were not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral, or avaricious, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. No, with such persons do not even sit at table.

For the time past of life may suffice us to have worked the will of the Gentiles, when we spent our life in lasciviousness, lusts, hard drinking, revelry, banqueting, and abominable idol worship.

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

They have eyes full of harlots, eyes that cannot stop sinning. They entice unsteady souls. Their heart is trained in greed. They are an accursed generation.

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge.

Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie.

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

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