29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

For God hath not called us unto impurity, but unto holiness.

that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

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

Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.

for whoremongers, for sodomites, for stealers of men, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing which is contrary to sound doctrine,

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own?

But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

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

Yet such were some of you: but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, whoredom, impurity, lasciviousness,

Marriage is honourable for all persons, and the marriage bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

for which things the wrath of God cometh upon the children of disobedience;

that no man transgress against, or act dishonestly to his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such things, as we have told you before, and testified.

HAVING therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one who loveth and maketh a lie.

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, the vile passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is idolatry:

but that we write to them, that they abstain from pollutions of idol [sacrifices], and from whoredom, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

And Mary said, How shall this be, seeing I know not man?

the aged women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

and they repented not of their murders, nor of their magical arts, nor of their whoredom, nor of their thefts.

Do ye not observe, that every thing which entereth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is ejected into the vault?

that ye abstain from eating whatever is sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from whoredom: from which things carefully preserving yourselves, ye shall do well. Farewell.

Therefore be not unwise, but intelligent concerning what is the will of the Lord.

But to the married not I command, but the Lord, That the wife be not separated from the husband:

These are they who have not defiled themselves with women; for they are virgins: these are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth: these have been redeemed among men, as first-fruits to God, and to the Lamb.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

who insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable avidity.