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Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Corinthians 7:3–5

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:18

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

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Matthew 5:28

but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:5

Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

1 Corinthians 6:18–20

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. — read the full passage →

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

1 Corinthians 6:9–10

Or 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 men, — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

1 Corinthians 6:13

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

Galatians 5:19–21

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Romans 13:13–14

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:1–2

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

1 Corinthians 6:9

Or 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 men,

Romans 1:26–27

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 2:22

But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Mark 7:20–23

And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. — read the full passage →

1 Timothy 1:10

for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

Jude 1:7

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them, having in like manner with these given themselves over to fornication and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

1 Corinthians 7:1–40

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 6:9–11

Or 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 men, — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

1 Corinthians 6:12–20

All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any. — read the full passage →

1 Peter 2:11

Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

1 John 2:15–16

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. — read the full passage →

Romans 1:24–27

Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

2 Corinthians 12:21

lest again when I come my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Titus 2:12

instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

1 Corinthians 7:8–9

But I say to the unmarried and to widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:3

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

Romans 1:27

and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.

Mark 10:6–9

But from the beginning of the creation, Male and female made he them. — read the full passage →

Revelation 21:8

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

1 Corinthians 10:8

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

1 Corinthians 6:11

And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Ephesians 5:25

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

Romans 13:9

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet, and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

1 Thessalonians 4:3–4

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Matthew 5:27–30

Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery: — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:1

Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

1 Corinthians 6:16

Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Acts 15:29

that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

Matthew 15:19–20

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings: — read the full passage →

Titus 1:15

To the pure all things are pure: but to them that are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

1 Corinthians 10:13

There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

1 Corinthians 6:19

Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

1 Thessalonians 4:3–7

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Galatians 6:1–18

Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted. — read the full passage →

1 Thessalonians 4:3–8

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

Romans 12:1–21

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 7:3–4

Let the husband render unto the wife her due: and likewise also the wife unto the husband. — read the full passage →

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