Bible Verses About Sexual Immorality
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sexual immorality, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 79,465 votes, led by 1 Corinthians 6:18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sexual Immorality
1 Corinthians 6:183,440 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
Hebrews 13:43,057 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-52,384 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Matthew 5:282,019 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.
Ephesians 5:31,866 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
Galatians 5:191,808 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 10:131,798 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.
1 Corinthians 7:21,659 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Colossians 3:51,589 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Corinthians 6:9-101,510 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,
Ephesians 5:51,509 votes
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:31,487 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 6:91,416 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,
1 John 1:91,197 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 Corinthians 10:81,149 votes
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Leviticus 18:221,089 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
1 Peter 2:111,071 votes
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
1 Corinthians 6:131,059 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.
2 Timothy 2:221,011 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1 Corinthians 5:1943 votes
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
Revelation 21:8927 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.
1 Corinthians 6:13-20912 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 Corinthians 6:9-11905 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,
2 Corinthians 12:21893 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.
Matthew 5:32878 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.
What does the Bible say about sexual immorality?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:18 on the subject of sexual immorality. Across 79,465 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:4, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, Matthew 5:28. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.