22 Bible Verses about Sexual Chastity

Do not commit adultery.

Don’t spend your energy on women
or your efforts on those who destroy kings.

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

I have made a covenant with my eyes.
How then could I look at a young woman?

Don’t lust in your heart for her beauty
or let her captivate you with her eyelashes.

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a trap, her heart a net, and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or verbally abusive, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the pagans choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behavior, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

They have eyes full of adultery and are always looking for sin. They seduce unstable people and have hearts trained in greed. Children under a curse!

The mouth of the forbidden woman is a deep pit;
a man cursed by the Lord will fall into it.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

For God has not called us to impurity but to sanctification.