Bible Verses About Immorality
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for immorality, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,440 votes, led by Galatians 5:19-21. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Immorality
Galatians 5:19-21133 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Hebrews 13:4116 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Corinthians 6:18104 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Mark 7:20-2398 votes
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
Matthew 5:2868 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.
Matthew 5:3265 votes
But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.
Ephesians 5:363 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Thessalonians 4:3-560 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 10:1359 votes
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.
Colossians 3:552 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Revelation 21:849 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Proverbs 7:1-2748 votes
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
1 Corinthians 7:242 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:1341 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.
Matthew 5:27-2831 votes
Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:
Genesis 2:2429 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
2 Corinthians 12:2128 votes
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.
Proverbs 5:1-625 votes
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Galatians 5:1925 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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.
1 Corinthians 6:922 votes
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,
Jude 1:422 votes
For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 2:1121 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Acts 15:2920 votes
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
1 Thessalonians 4:320 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
What does the Bible say about immorality?
Readers most often cite Galatians 5:19-21 on the subject of immorality. Across 1,440 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Corinthians 6:18, Mark 7:20-23. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.