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Bible Verses about “sexual impurity”

The Bible contains 50 verses about sexual impurity across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Hebrews 13:4
1042 votes

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.”

Galatians 5:21
905 votes

“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

1 Corinthians 10:13
873 votes

“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”

Galatians 5:19
810 votes

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

Galatians 5:20
786 votes

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

1 Corinthians 6:18
628 votes

“Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”

Matthew 5:28
627 votes

“but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

1 Thessalonians 4:3
304 votes

“For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,”

Romans 1:27
290 votes

“Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.”

Romans 1:26
286 votes

“For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.”

1 Thessalonians 4:4
275 votes

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

Leviticus 18:22
271 votes

“"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.”

1 Thessalonians 4:5
243 votes

“not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;”

2 Timothy 2:22
230 votes

“Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.”

Romans 1:20
211 votes

“For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.”

Leviticus 20:13
210 votes

“"'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”

Romans 1:29
160 votes

“being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,”

Romans 1:28
155 votes

“Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;”

Romans 1:22
147 votes

“Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,”

1 Corinthians 6:13
141 votes

“"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”

2 Peter 2:1
140 votes

“But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.”

Romans 1:25
138 votes

“who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.”

Romans 1:18
134 votes

“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,”

Romans 1:24
132 votes

“Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,”

Romans 1:21
131 votes

“Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.”

Romans 1:30
131 votes

“backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,”

Romans 1:32
130 votes

“who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.”

Romans 1:23
128 votes

“and traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.”

Romans 1:31
127 votes

“without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;”

Romans 1:19
101 votes

“because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them.”

2 Peter 2:21
92 votes

“For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.”

2 Peter 2:4
89 votes

“For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;”

2 Peter 2:22
84 votes

“But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."”

2 Peter 2:20
83 votes

“For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.”

2 Peter 2:3
82 votes

“In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.”

1 Thessalonians 4:6
78 votes

“that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.”

1 Thessalonians 4:7
68 votes

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

1 Thessalonians 4:8
66 votes

“Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.”

2 Peter 2:2
60 votes

“Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.”

2 Peter 2:19
60 votes

“promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.”

2 Peter 2:9
57 votes

“the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;”

2 Peter 2:5
52 votes

“and didn't spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly;”

2 Peter 2:12
49 votes

“But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,”

2 Peter 2:15
49 votes

“forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing;”

2 Peter 2:10
47 votes

“but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;”

2 Peter 2:7
43 votes

“and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked”

2 Peter 2:18
43 votes

“For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;”

2 Peter 2:13
41 votes

“receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;”

2 Peter 2:14
41 votes

“having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;”

2 Peter 2:6
39 votes

“and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly;”

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