35 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.

that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world.

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

and immoral men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching,

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

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

Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them. Yet the body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints;

For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience,

No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the Lord; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the Lord.

and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.

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

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

but that we write to them that they abstain from things contaminated by idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”

the older women as mothers, and 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 understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is eliminated?

If a man lies with a woman so that there is a seminal emission, they shall both bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

“If there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man finds her in the city and lies with her,

So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

But to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord, that the wife should not leave her husband

These are the ones who have not been defiled with women, for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

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

The Lord also said to Moses, “Go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their garments;

and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.