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Bible Verses about β€œmasturbation”

The Bible contains 21 verses about masturbation across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Galatians 5:21
905 votes

β€œEnvyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

1 Corinthians 10:13
873 votes

β€œThere hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it].”

Galatians 5:19
810 votes

β€œNow the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

Galatians 5:20
786 votes

β€œIdolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”

1 Corinthians 7:5
670 votes

β€œDefraud 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.”

1 Corinthians 7:3
633 votes

β€œLet the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.”

1 Corinthians 6:18
628 votes

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

Matthew 5:28
627 votes

β€œβ€ΉBut I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.›”

1 Corinthians 7:4
616 votes

β€œThe wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”

Romans 13:14
366 votes

β€œBut put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].”

James 1:14
342 votes

β€œBut every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.”

James 1:15
328 votes

β€œThen when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

1 Thessalonians 4:3
304 votes

β€œFor this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”

James 1:13
276 votes

β€œΒΆ Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:”

1 Thessalonians 4:4
275 votes

β€œThat every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;”

1 Corinthians 9:27
248 votes

β€œBut I keep under my body, and bring [it] into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”

1 Thessalonians 4:5
243 votes

β€œNot in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”

1 Peter 2:11
190 votes

β€œDearly beloved, I beseech [you] as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;”

John 8:34
84 votes

β€œJesus answered them, β€ΉVerily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.›”

Leviticus 15:16
23 votes

β€œAnd 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.”

Leviticus 15:17
8 votes

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

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