Bible Verses about “masturbating”
The Bible contains 25 verses about masturbating across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
“Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
“¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.”
“Defraud ye not one the other, except [it be] with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
“‹But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.›”
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
“But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”
“Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”
“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
“[This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”
“¶ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”
“That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;”
“¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”
“Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but [how] to perform that which is good I find not.”
“For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.”
“For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.”
“Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”
“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.”
“For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:”
“If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that [it is] good.”
“Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.”
“¶ I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?”