36 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality
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Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is outside the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;
Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:
You have also played the harlot with the Egyptians your neighbors, strong in lust; and have increased your harlotries, to provoke me to anger.
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her who is put away does commit adultery.
Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, impurity, licentiousness,
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after unnatural lust, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
But I have a few things against you, because you have there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat.
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, except for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.
And I gave her time to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit harlotry with the daughters of Moab.
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from defilements of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn over many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have committed.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Yet not entirely with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must you needs go out of the world.
Now concerning the things of which you wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like: of which I tell you beforehand, as I have also told you in time past, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto licentiousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
That you abstain from anything offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Farewell.
And concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, except only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Lest there be any immoral, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
For fornicators, for homosexuals, for slave traders, for liars, for perjurers, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.
None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
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Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones so that she dies: because she has wrought folly in Israel, to play the harlot in her father's house: so shall you put evil away from among you. If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel. If a young woman that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her; read more.
Then you shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die; the young woman, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he has violated his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away evil from among you.
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Hebrews 13:4Let marriage be held in honor by all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
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