Bible Verses About Purity in Relationships

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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:

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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;

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

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.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: 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.

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.

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.

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

Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

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

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

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.