Bible Verses About Holiness in Relationships

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane; neither shall they take a woman put away from her husband: for he is holy unto his God.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself unsavoury.

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep thyself pure.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband: