35 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

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

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

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

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

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

For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

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

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: 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 ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye 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, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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

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

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

A bastard 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 go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that 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 without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

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

But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions 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 not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

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

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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

Wherefore be ye 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 which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits 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 to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

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