36 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Flee lewdness. Every sin that a man doeth, is without the body; but he that committeth lewdness, sinneth against his own body.

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

It is reported commonly that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbors, great of flesh; and hast multiplied thy lewd deeds, to provoke me to anger.

And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, except for lewdness, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoever marrieth her who is put away, committeth adultery.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Neither let us commit lewdness, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to impurity, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit lewdness.

But now I have written to you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother is a lewd person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner: with such person no not to eat.

Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their lewdness, nor of their thefts.

But I say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of lewdness, causeth her to commit adultery: and whoever shall marry her that is divorced, committeth adultery.

And I gave her time to repent of her lewdness, and she repented not.

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit lewdness with the daughters of Moab.

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

But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from things strangled, and from blood.

And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you, and I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and lewdness, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

Yet not altogether with lewd persons of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters: for then ye must needs go out of the world.

Now concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

I have written to you in this epistle, not to associate with persons guilty of lewdness:

Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

That ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from lewdness: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Fare ye well.

As concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from lewdness.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons and adulterers God will judge.

For lewd persons, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for men-stealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and lewd men, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loveth and maketh a lie.

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.