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Bible Verses about โ€œmasturbationโ€

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

โ€œenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ€

1 Corinthians 10:13
873 votes

โ€œNo temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.โ€

Galatians 5:19
810 votes

โ€œNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ€

Galatians 5:20
786 votes

โ€œidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ€

1 Corinthians 7:5
670 votes

โ€œDon't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.โ€

1 Corinthians 7:3
633 votes

โ€œLet the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband.โ€

1 Corinthians 6:18
628 votes

โ€œFlee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.โ€

Matthew 5:28
627 votes

โ€œbut I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.โ€

1 Corinthians 7:4
616 votes

โ€œThe wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.โ€

Romans 13:14
366 votes

โ€œBut put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.โ€

James 1:14
342 votes

โ€œBut each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.โ€

James 1:15
328 votes

โ€œThen the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.โ€

1 Thessalonians 4:3
304 votes

โ€œFor this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,โ€

James 1:13
276 votes

โ€œLet no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.โ€

1 Thessalonians 4:4
275 votes

โ€œthat each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,โ€

1 Corinthians 9:27
248 votes

โ€œbut I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.โ€

1 Thessalonians 4:5
243 votes

โ€œnot in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;โ€

1 Peter 2:11
190 votes

โ€œBeloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;โ€

John 8:34
84 votes

โ€œJesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.โ€

Leviticus 15:16
23 votes

โ€œ"'If any man has an emission of semen, then he shall bathe all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the evening.โ€

Leviticus 15:17
8 votes

โ€œEvery garment, and every skin, whereon the semen is, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.โ€

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