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 abstain from fornication; — read the full passage →

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.

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

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

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.

Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

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

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

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye 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 mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

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:

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

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

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 →

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

Establish my footsteps in thy word; And let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

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

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

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

He that committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding: He doeth it who would destroy his own soul.

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 →

Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Every one that committeth sin is the bondservant of sin.

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, 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, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of 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 be made manifest before the judgment-seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what 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, and he himself tempteth no man: — read the full passage →

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

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

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin? — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I that live, but Christ liveth in me: and that life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith which is in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to 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 ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

Wherewith 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 righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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

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.

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 his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, 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 that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

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

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?

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

If then ye were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

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

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye 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 our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

Be subject therefore unto God; but 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 suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

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.

The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which 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 knowledge of the truth which is according to 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 Jehovah. — read the full passage →

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

For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

through whom we received grace and apostleship, unto obedience of faith among all the nations, for his name’s sake; — read the full passage →

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

Surely God is good to Israel, Evento such as are pure in heart.

Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, 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 proceedeth 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 ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.

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

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of 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 one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

I write unto you, my 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 honor, sanctified, meet for the master’s use, prepared unto every good work.

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

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be 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 show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

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

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

For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife; and the two shall become 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 →

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,

Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: 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 my charge, that ye practise not any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am Jehovah your God.

seeing that through the proving of you by this ministration they glorify God for the obedience of your confession unto the gospel of Christ, and for the liberality of your contribution unto them and unto all; — read the full passage →

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. — read the full passage →

But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against Jehovah; 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 children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. — read the full passage →

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.