Bible Verses about Sexuality

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• For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God.
  1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 holiness body self-control
• Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
  1 Corinthians 7:5 marriage devil self-control
• Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes, men who engage in illicit sex, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.
  1 Corinthians 6:9-10 sin salvation kingdom
• The husband should give to his wife what is due her and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
  1 Corinthians 7:3-4 marriage body
• They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the males, giving up natural intercourse with females, were consumed with their passionate desires for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind and to do things that should not be done.
  Romans 1:25-28 idols desires
• Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman—though the weaker vessel, they are joint heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.
  1 Peter 3:7 marriage prayer grace
• Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  Hebrews 13:4 marriage desires judgment
• Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
  Colossians 3:5 sin desires materialism
• You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  Matthew 5:27-28 marriage desires heart
• You have the fringe so that, when you see it, you will remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them and not follow the lust of your own heart and your own eyes.
  Numbers 15:39 law obedience desires
• Shun sexual immorality! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against the body itself.
  1 Corinthians 6:18 body sin
• For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.
  Ephesians 5:31 marriage body
• But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
  1 Corinthians 7:2 desires marriage relationships
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  how, then, could I look upon a virgin?
  Job 31:1 desires self-control covenant
• Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  Galatians 5:19-21 body sin idols
• But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.
  Mark 10:6-9 marriage body
• But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.
  Ephesians 5:3 sin greed holiness
• This means understanding that the law is laid down not for the righteous but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who engage in illicit sex, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.
  1 Timothy 1:9-11 law sin slavery
• God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
  Genesis 1:28 blessing creation world
• He answered, “Have you not read that the one who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
  Matthew 19:4-6 marriage creation
• And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
  Mark 7:20-23 sin purification temptation
• And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said,
  “This at last is bone of my bones
  and flesh of my flesh;
  this one shall be called Woman,
  for out of Man this one was taken.”
  Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
  Genesis 2:22-24 marriage creation body