Bible Verses about “sexual purity”
The Bible contains 25 verses about sexual purity 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.”
“Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
“Envyings, 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.”
“There 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].”
“Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“¶ 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,”
“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.›”
“Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].”
“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”
“¶ 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:”
“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.”
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.”
“¶ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; [and] quicken thou me in thy way.”
“Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.”
“Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
“Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.”
“¶ Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.”