Bible Verses About Chastity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for chastity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,926 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 4:3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Chastity
1 Thessalonians 4:3182 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Matthew 5:28128 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
1 Corinthians 7:1-4092 votes
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
1 Corinthians 6:18-2086 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Colossians 3:584 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Ephesians 5:370 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Romans 13:1364 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Exodus 20:1459 votes
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
1 Corinthians 7:7-957 votes
For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
1 Thessalonians 4:756 votes
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Hebrews 13:447 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Galatians 5:19-2137 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Proverbs 6:2535 votes
Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
1 Corinthians 6:13-1934 votes
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.
1 Peter 2:1133 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Job 31:132 votes
I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Psalms 119:929 votes
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Psalms 51:1028 votes
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
1 Corinthians 7:228 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
2 Timothy 1:726 votes
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Leviticus 20:1324 votes
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Matthew 5:824 votes
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Romans 12:224 votes
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.
Proverbs 5:15-2123 votes
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Revelation 14:1-521 votes
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
What does the Bible say about chastity?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 4:3 on the subject of chastity. Across 1,926 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 5:28, 1 Corinthians 7:1-40, 1 Corinthians 6:18-20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.