29 Bible Verses about Sexual Purity

For it is God's will that you should keep pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,

For God did not call us to a life of immorality, but to one of personal purity.

that each man among you should learn to take his own wife out of pure and honorable motives,

not that you are to stop all dealings with sexually immoral people of this world, any more than with its greedy graspers, or its idolaters, for then you would have to get clear out of the world.

Keep on running from sexual immorality! Any other sin that a man commits is one outside his body, but the man who commits the sexual sin is sinning against his own body.

the immoral, men who practice sodomy, men who make other men their slaves, liars, perjurers, or anything else that is contrary to sound teaching,

Or, are you not conscious that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is in you, whom you have as a gift from God? Furthermore, you are not your own,

But if they do not practice self-control, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burning in the fire of passion.

Foods are intended for the stomach, and the stomach for foods, but God will finally put a stop to both of them. The body is not intended for sexual immorality but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

And these are just the characters some of you used to be. But now you have washed yourselves clean, you have been consecrated, you are now in right standing with God, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of God.

Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Marriage must be held in honor by all, and the marriage relations kept sacred. Persons who are sexually vicious and immoral God will punish.

But sexual vice and any form of immorality or sensual greed must not so much as be mentioned among you, as that is the only course becoming in God's people;

It is on account of these very sins that God's anger is coming.

that no one should do wrong and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we told you before and solemnly warned you.

So, since we have such promises as these, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles our bodies and spirits, and in reverence to God carry on our consecration to completeness.

The dogs, that is, those who practice magic and immorality, murderers, idolaters, and those who love and practice lying, are on the outside.

So once for all put to death your lower, earthly nature with respect to sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is real idolatry.

but we should write them to abstain from everything that is contaminated by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from tasting blood.

But Mary said to the angel, "How can this be, since I have no husband?"

older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, with perfect purity.

and they never did repent of their murders, their practices in magic, their immorality, or their thefts.

Do you not understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the stomach and afterwards into the waste?

that you abstain from everything that is offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the meat of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves free from these things, you will prosper. Good-by."

So stop becoming senseless, but understand what the Lord's will is.

To the people already married I give this instruction -- no, not I but the Lord -- that a wife is not to leave her husband.

These are the men who have not been defiled by relations with women, for they are as pure as virgins, These are the men who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been redeemed from among men as the first fruits for God and the Lamb,

So let us keep our feast, not with old yeast nor with the yeast of vice and wickedness, but with the bread of purity and truth without the yeast.

for in their recklessness they have abandoned themselves to sensuality which leads to excessive practices of all sorts of immorality.