What Is Sexual Immorality

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

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

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 →

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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 →

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 →

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.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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.

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,

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hinder the truth in unrighteousness; — read the full passage →

And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

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

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.

The word of Jehovah came also unto me, saying, — read the full passage →

I am a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys. — read the full passage →

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

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.

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.

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.

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Every one that putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth one that is put away from a husband committeth adultery.

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

In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

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

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth. — read the full passage →

And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither. — read the full passage →

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

And another, a second angel, followed, saying, Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great, that hath made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

But I have this against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there some that hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

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.

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

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. — read the full passage →

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

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

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 →

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: — read the full passage →

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

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 →

for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

If ye love me, ye will keep my commandments.

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

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

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

If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, that is not betrothed, and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found; — read the full passage →

And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication,

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

the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment unto the day of judgment;

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved and fellow-worker, — read the full passage →

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

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

But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — 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 unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness?

and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power. — read the full passage →

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

And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her: — read the full passage →

And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

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

for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning,

For by the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.

with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication.

and they repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

And I gave her time that she should repent; and she willeth not to repent of her fornication.

For there are certain men crept in privily, even they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

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.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but nurture them in the chastening and admonition of the Lord.

for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

But unto the married I give charge, yea not I, but the Lord, That the wife depart not from her husband — read the full passage →

I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; — read the full passage →

And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when wefirstbelieved. — read the full passage →

So then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh: — read the full passage →

But as touching the Gentiles that have believed, we wrote, giving judgment that they should keep themselves from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing.

And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him. — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, — read the full passage →

Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

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

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.