29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness:

that every one of you should take care to preserve the dignity of his

I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world.

flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.

against licentiousness and unnatural passion, against men-stealers, lyars, perjured persons, and every thing that is inconsistent

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

but if they have not the gift, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to be in pain.

"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:

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

now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,

Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

these are vices which draw down the divine vengeance upon unbelieving nations;

that no man should be exorbitant, and behave contumeliously to his brother: because the Lord is the avenger of all such crimes, as we have formerly remonstrated to you.

since then, we have these promises, my dear brethren, let us cleanse our selves from all impurity, whether of body or mind, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

"but without are the execrable, the poisoners, the licentious, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who are pleas'd with, or practise deceit.

Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood.

Then said Mary to the angel, what shall this be without any intercourse with man?

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

nor did they repent of their murders, of their poisoning, of their brutality, nor of their robberys.

do not ye yet conceive, that whatever enters at the mouth, passes to the belly, and is discharged downwards?

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the flesh of strangled animals, and from fornication: you will do well to preserve your selves from these practices. farewel.

wherefore be not imprudent, but consider what is agreeable to the divine will.

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave 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 ransom'd from among men, being the first fruits unto God, and to the lamb.

therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with unaffected sincerity and truth.

who without remorse, have abandon'd themselves to brutality, in gratifying every lewd unnatural passion.