Bible Verses About Sanctity

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

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

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

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

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.

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.

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

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

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

And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am the Lord which sanctify you.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

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

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

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

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.

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

And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

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

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

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

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

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

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

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.

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.