22 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

"You shall not commit adultery.

Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which ruins kings.

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

"I made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I entertain thoughts against a virgin?

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty, and do not let her captivate you with her alluring eyes;

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter's snare; her heart is like a hunter's net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

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

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?

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.