35 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

This is the will of God, for your sanctification (holiness) (purification), that you should abstain from fornication.

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

Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor,

Yet you cannot completely avoid the fornicators of this world, nor the greedy persons, nor cheaters and robbers, nor those who worship idols. To do so you would have to leave this world.

Flee from fornication! Every sin that a man does is outside his body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

It is for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and everything else that is contrary to the sound teaching.

What? Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? That one (Greek: hos he ho which, that one) is in you. You received it from God. You are not your own.

But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. It is better to marry than to be inflamed [with lust].

Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

That is what some of you were. You have been washed clean and now you are sanctified. The Spirit of our God declares you righteous in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,

Let marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among holy ones.

Because of such things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of Jehovah. None of his descendants to the tenth generation shall enter the assembly of Jehovah.

Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified.

Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.

Outside are the dogs (impure men) and those who practice spiritism, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and everyone who tells lies.'

Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.

We should write to them that they should abstain from things polluted by idols, from fornication, from things strangled and from blood.

Mary asked the angel: How is this to be for I have had no intercourse with a man?

Treat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with much honor.

Neither did they repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Do you not see, that which goes into the mouth, goes into the stomach and is sent out as waste?

When a man has sexual intercourse with a woman and has an emission of semen, they must wash themselves. They will be unclean until evening.

You should abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these you will do well. Farwell (best wishes).

Jehovah told Moses:

You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk.

Suppose there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man has sexual relations with her.

Do not be foolish, but understand (perceive) what the will of Jehovah is.

To the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord commands do not let the wife depart from her husband.

These are they who were not defiled with women. They are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed (bought) from among mankind. They are the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

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

Jehovah continued: Go to the people and tell them to spend today and tomorrow purifying themselves for worship. They must wash their clothes.

They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more).