16 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;

As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,

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

But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with any one who, although a Brother in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping-no, not even to sit at table with such people.

Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.

They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice.

Lost to all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, in order to practice every kind of impurity without restraint.

They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse.

Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'

Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you-the Spirit which you have from God?

For God's Call to us does not permit of an impure life, but demands purity.