Sexual Purity

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

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

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.

Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.

But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. — read the full passage →

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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

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

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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.

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.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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

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, — read the full passage →

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

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

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

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. — read the full passage →

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: — read the full passage →

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. — read the full passage →

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: — read the full passage →

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. — read the full passage →

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. — read the full passage →

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

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me. — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency. — read the full passage →

But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? — read the full passage →

I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

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

Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — read the full passage →

But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; — read the full passage →

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord. — read the full passage →

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. — read the full passage →

For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name: — read the full passage →

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. — read the full passage →

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

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

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: — read the full passage →

Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. — read the full passage →

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake. — read the full passage →

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see that she reverence her husband.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; — read the full passage →

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. — read the full passage →

With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward.

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

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 →

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,

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. — read the full passage →

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men; — read the full passage →

Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak. — read the full passage →

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

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.