36 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

You also played the harlot with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, and multiplied your harlotry to make Me angry.

And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.”

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals,

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who kept teaching Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit acts of immorality.

But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.

and they did not repent of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their immorality nor of their thefts.

but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

While Israel remained at Shittim, the people began to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have sinned in the past and not repented of the impurity, immorality and sensuality which they have practiced.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders.

I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;

and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

‘None of you shall approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the Lord.