Bible Verses About Sexual Impurity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sexual impurity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 779 votes, led by 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Sexual Impurity
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5113 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 10:1367 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 6:1866 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Corinthians 6:1358 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.
Hebrews 13:458 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Galatians 5:19-2155 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Matthew 5:2844 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.
2 Timothy 2:2244 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Romans 1:18-3230 votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Leviticus 18:2228 votes
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:1327 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.
2 Peter 2:1-2224 votes
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-820 votes
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Proverbs 1:1-3315 votes
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 Corinthians 7:114 votes
Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
Exodus 22:1913 votes
Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 18:1-3013 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Ephesians 5:313 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 6:9-1012 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,
Genesis 2:2411 votes
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Isaiah 1:1-3111 votes
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
1 Corinthians 6:12-2011 votes
All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
Ephesians 1:1-2311 votes
Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:
Hebrews 7:2611 votes
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
Joel 3:1-2110 votes
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
What does the Bible say about sexual impurity?
Readers most often cite 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 on the subject of sexual impurity. Across 779 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 6:18, 1 Corinthians 6:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.