35 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

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

For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

That every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor;

Yet not entirely with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

For fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars, for perjurers, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

What? know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have of God, and you are not your own?

But if they cannot have self-control, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

And such were some of you: but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness,

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

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

For which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience:

A man of illegitimate birth shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.

That no man transgress and wrong his brother in any matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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

For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.

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

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

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

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

Do you not yet understand, that whatsoever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the drain?

The woman also with whom man shall lie and have an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the evening.

That you abstain from anything offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Farewell.

And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,

To deliver you from the immoral woman, even from the seductress who flatters with her words;

If a young woman that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;

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

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes,

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