35 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

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

For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.

that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have 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 meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"--and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual 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 by the Spirit of our God.

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

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

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

On account of these the wrath of God is coming.

"No one born of a forbidden union may enter the assembly of the LORD. Even to the tenth generation, none of his descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD.

that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

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

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you:sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

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

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

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

Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is expelled?

If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.

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

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,

"If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,

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

To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband

It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,

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

the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments

They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.