36 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you. This type of fornication is not even found among the people of the nations (who do not know God). There is a man who has his father's wife.

Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

This is the will of God, for your sanctification (holiness) (purification), that you should abstain from fornication.

You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.

I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for fornication, and marries another, commits adultery. And he who marries her when she is divorced, commits adultery.

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor people who worship idols, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

Do not commit fornication like some of them committed. Twenty three thousand of them died in one day.

Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,

Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them are an example for they, in like manner with these surrendered to fornication and went after flesh for unnatural use. They received justice by ever burning fire.

I have a few things against you: you have people there who hold to the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to present a snare to the sons of Israel, to eat of idol sacrifices and commit fornication.

I wrote you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother who is a fornicator, or who is greedy, or who worships idols, or constantly gets drunk, or cheats people. Do not even eat with such a person.

Neither did they repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

I say to you that everyone divorcing his wife, except for the reason of fornication, makes her liable to commit adultery. And if she marries again, the man she marries also 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 indulged in sexual immorality with the Moabite women.

It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood.

I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced.

Evil thoughts come from the heart! Thoughts about murder, adultery, fornication, theft, lying, and slander come from the heart!

Yet you cannot completely avoid the fornicators of this world, nor the greedy persons, nor cheaters and robbers, nor those who worship idols. To do so you would have to leave this world.

Concerning the things that you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch (have sex with) a woman.

envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.

I wrote in a letter to you not to keep company with fornicators.

They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more).

You should abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farwell (best wishes).

Concerning those of the nations who have believed, we write: they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

Let no one become immoral or unspiritual like Esau. He sold his birthright for a single meal!

Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

It is for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and everything else that is contrary to the sound teaching.

Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'

Do not have sex with any of your close relatives,