Bible Verses About Moral Purity

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

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

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.

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

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.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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.

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

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

I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

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

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.

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.

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

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

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.

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

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

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

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.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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.