16 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood.

Let us walk decently, as in the day; not in banqueting and drunken entertainments, not in uncleannesses and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

But let not fornication, or any uncleanness, or covetousness be even named among you, as becometh saints:

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

But I have now written unto you, if any who is named a brother, be a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to converse with such an one, no, not to eat with him.

For the time past of your life sufficeth to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when ye walked in lasciviousness, evil desires, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries.

full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity:

Who being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cease not from sin; beguiling unstable souls, having hearts exercised with covetousness, accursed children:

Marriage is honourable in all men, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God?

For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.