36 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" -- but the immoral person sins against his own body.

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife.

But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both." The body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

You engaged in prostitution with the Egyptians, your sexually aroused neighbors, multiplying your promiscuity and provoking me to anger.

Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery."

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, passive homosexual partners, practicing homosexuals,

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

But I have a few things against you: You have some people there who follow the teaching of Balaam, who instructed Balak to put a stumbling block before the people of Israel so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit sexual immorality.

But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

Furthermore, they did not repent of their murders, of their magic spells, of their sexual immorality, or of their stealing.

But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.

I am afraid that when I come again, my God may humiliate me before you, and I will grieve for many of those who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

In no way did I mean the immoral people of this world, or the greedy and swindlers and idolaters, since you would then have to go out of the world.

Now with regard to the issues you wrote about: "It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman."

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

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

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

that you abstain from meat that has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what has been strangled and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from doing these things, you will do well. Farewell.

But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality."

So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

And see to it that no one becomes an immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.

sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, kidnappers, liars, perjurers -- in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the sexually immoral, and the murderers, and the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood!

"'No man is to approach any close relative to have sexual intercourse with her. I am the Lord.