33 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Avoid fornication. Every crime that a man commits is out of his body; but he that commits fornication sins in his body.

but on account of fornications, let each man have his wife, and each woman have her husband.

IT is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not among the gentiles, that a man should have his father's wife.

Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,

Food for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will destroy both it and them. And the body is not for fornication but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body;

For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,

And I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.

Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did and fell in one day twenty-three thousand.

For the works of the flesh are manifest, which are, fornication, impurity, lewdness,

as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same manner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an example, enduring the punishment of eternal fire.

But I have a few things against you; you have there those who hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to put an occasion of sin before the children of Israel, both to eat things offered to idols and to commit fornication.

But now I have written to you not to associate, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, even to eat with such a one.

and did not change their minds [to turn] from their murders, nor from their magic arts, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.

But I tell you, that whoever puts away his wife, except for adultery, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries her that is put away, commits adultery.

And I gave her time to change her mind, and she will not change her mind from her fornication.

for from within, from the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications,

but to send to them to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood.

lest when I come again my God shall humble me before you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned, and not changed their minds, in respect to impurity and fornication and lewdness which they have committed.

For from the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies:

not altogether the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world.

CONCERNING what you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman;

murders, drunkenness, revellings and the like, of which I tell you before, as I have also previously told you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

I wrote to you in the epistle not to associate with fornicators;

who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

that you should abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication, from which if you keep yourselves you will do well. Farewell.

But concerning the gentiles who have believed, we have sent, judging that they should avoid things offered to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

that no one may be a fornicator or unholy person like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright.

Marriage is honorable in all, and married life without blame; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

fornicators, sodomites, men-stealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Without are dogs and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practises falsehood.