Bible Verses About Moral Defilement

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.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

In thy filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged, thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee.

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

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

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed goeth from him, and is defiled therewith;

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

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

By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of Israel hallow unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the Lord.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?

But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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

For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;

And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even.

Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.