30 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Shun immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his body.

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

'Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food'? Yes, and God will do away with the one and the other. The body is not meant for immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body;

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife except for unchastity and marries another woman, commits adultery; and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."

What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites

Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell.

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

But I have one or two things against you: you have some adherents there of the tenets of Balaam, who taught Balak how to set a pitfall before the sons of Israel by making them eat food which had been sacrificed to idols and give way to sexual vice.

What I now write is that you are not to associate with any so-called brother who is immoral or lustful or idolatrous or given to abuse or drink or robbery. Associate with him! Do not even eat with him!

nor did they repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual vice or of their thefts.

But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

I have given her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual vice.

From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder,

but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

I did not mean you were literally to avoid contact with the immoral in this world, with the lustful and the thievish, or with idolaters; in that case you would have to leave the world altogether.

Now about the questions in your letter. It is an excellent thing for a man to have no intercourse with a woman;

envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

In my letter I wrote that you were not to associate with the immoral.

abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye."

As for Gentile believers, we have issued our decision that they must avoid food that has been offered to idols, the taste of blood, flesh of animals that have been strangled, and sexual vice."

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did ??Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright.

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

immoral persons, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine

Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"