Bible Verses About Sexual Purity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for sexual purity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,490 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 Purity
1 Corinthians 6:18852 votes
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5740 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
1 Corinthians 10:13608 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.
Hebrews 13:4595 votes
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Psalms 119:37442 votes
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Matthew 5:28378 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.
Romans 6:11-14295 votes
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Colossians 3:5292 votes
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
Galatians 5:19-21277 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Thessalonians 4:3263 votes
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Romans 13:14229 votes
But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Colossians 3:2224 votes
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Romans 12:2217 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.
1 Corinthians 6:13201 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 7:2200 votes
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Ephesians 5:3181 votes
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
1 Corinthians 6:9-10177 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,
Galatians 5:19172 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Psalms 119:133169 votes
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
2 Timothy 2:22162 votes
Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Galatians 5:13155 votes
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Proverbs 6:32150 votes
But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Matthew 5:8149 votes
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
1 Corinthians 6:12-20118 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.
John 8:34115 votes
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
What does the Bible say about sexual purity?
Readers most often cite 1 Corinthians 6:18 on the subject of sexual purity. Across 10,490 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Hebrews 13:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.