36 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

It is widely reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and the kind of sexual immorality that is not even tolerated among the Gentiles—a man is living with his father’s wife.

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

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

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbors, and increased your prostitution to provoke Me to anger.

And I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,

In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions, just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

But I have a few things against you. You have some there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to place a stumbling block in front of the Israelites: to eat meat sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

And they did not repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.

But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

I gave her time to repent, but she does not want to repent of her sexual immorality.

While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove, the people began to have sexual relations with the women of Moab.

For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity they practiced.

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

I did not mean the immoral people of this world or the greedy and swindlers or idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.

Now in response to the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have relations with a woman.”

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.

Farewell.

With regard to the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter containing our decision that they should keep themselves from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality.”

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

for the sexually immoral and homosexuals, for kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

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

“You are not to come near any close relative for sexual intercourse; I am Yahweh.