Bible Verses About Sexual Ethics

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

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

But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.

Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her.

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.

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

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

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

There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite of the sons of Israel.

Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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

And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:

The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

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

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:

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

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.

Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.

But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

And if a man shall take his brother’s wife, it is an unclean thing: he hath uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.

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

So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

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

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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

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