Bible Verses about “sexual sin”
The Bible contains 18 verses about sexual sin across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.”
“Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
“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,”
“¶ 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,”
“Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
“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.”
“And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
“¶ 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;”
“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it [is] abomination.”
“Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:”
“[But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.”