Sexual immorality

Sexual immorality (fornication in older translations) is forbidden throughout the Bible. This page lists verses on adultery, sex outside marriage, and the call to holiness.

Adultery

• Exodus 20:14
  Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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• Proverbs 6:32
  But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
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• Matthew 5:27-28
  ²⁷Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: ²⁸But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
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Flee sexual immorality

• 1 Corinthians 6:18-20
  ¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. ¹⁹What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.
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• 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
  ³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: ⁴That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; ⁵Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
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• Ephesians 5:3
  But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
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• 1 Corinthians 7:2
  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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Marriage honored

• Hebrews 13:4
  Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
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Works of the flesh

• Galatians 5:19-21
  ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, ²⁰Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, ²¹Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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• Colossians 3:5
  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
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See also

• Lust
• Marriage
• Homosexuality

Notes

1. Verses are quoted in the translation chosen in the Translation menu at the top of the page. See Translations for sources and copyright notices.
2. Each reference links to the full chapter so the verse can be read in context.