29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

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

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

that each one of you know how to take his own spouse for himself in holiness and honor,

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

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

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

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;

But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food"but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

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

Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.

and that no man transgress and wrong his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

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

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.

but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

And Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I am a virgin?"

older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, in all purity.

nor did they repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality or their thefts.

Do you not yet see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated?

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves free from these, you will do well. Farewell."

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

To the married I give charge, not I but the Lord, that the wife should not separate from her husband

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

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