16 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Let us behave decently as being in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lasciviousness, not in strife and envying.

Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:

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

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it becometh saints:

meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but 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 now I have written to you, not to associate with him, if any one, that is called a brother, be a whoremonger, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious; with such a one no not to eat.

For the time past of our life is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, inordinate desires, excess of wine, revellings, drunkenness, and abominable idolatries:

being filled with all injustice, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malignity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and every evil habit; whisperers,

who, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to commit all uncleanness with greediness.

having eyes full of adultery, and which cannot be restrained from sin: ensnaring unstable souls, and having a heart practised in rapine; cursed people:

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and practiseth falshood.

What! 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 impurity, but to holiness.