Bible Verses About Sexual Purity

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

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

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.

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.

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

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:

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

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

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

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.

And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh 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.

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

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

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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.

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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,

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