29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

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

That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.

Not that in this world you were actually to have no contact with the immoral, the avaricious, the thievish, or with idolaters; for then you would have to leave the world, altogether.

Flee from immorality. Every other sin that a man commits lies outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body.

for the immoral, for sexual perverts, for slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

Do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is within you, the Spirit whom you have from God?

If, however, they are not exercising self-control, by all means let them marry; for marriage is better than the fever of passion.

"Food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for food"? Yes, but God will soon put an end both to the one and to the other. The body, however, exists not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,

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

As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

These things are ever bringing down the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience,

That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you.

As these promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and of spirit, and perfect our holiness in the fear of God.

Without are the dogs, the sorcerers, the immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who live and make a lie.

So slay your baser inclinations. fornication, impurity, appetite, unnatural desires, and the greed which is idolatry.

"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

And Mary said to the angel. "How can this be? For I have no husband?"

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

And they did not repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their immorality, nor of their thefts.

"Do you not know how all that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and is afterward evacuated;

"that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord's will is.

But to those already married my commandment is??nd not mine, but the Lord's??hat a wife is not to leave her husband;

These are they who were not defiled with women; for they are celibates. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been redeemed from among men to be the first-fruits unto God and the Lamb.

So let us keep the unending feast, not with any old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and vice, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.