Bible Verses of Sexuality

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Romans 13:13

In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:27

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 1:26

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

Romans 1:24

Then an Israelite man brought into the camp a Midianite woman right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

Numbers 25:6

While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,

Numbers 25:1

For it is from within, out of a person`s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder,

Mark 7:21

so that he will not defile his offspring among his people. I am the Lord, who makes him holy.`”

Leviticus 21:15

He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, or a woman defiled by prostitution, but only a virgin from his own people,

Leviticus 21:14

“‘The woman he marries must be a virgin.

Leviticus 21:13

“‘If a priest`s daughter defiles herself by becoming a prostitute, she disgraces her father; she must be burned in the fire.

Leviticus 21:9

“‘They must not marry women defiled by prostitution or divorced from their husbands, because priests are holy to their God.

Leviticus 21:7

“‘If a man marries his brother`s wife, it is an act of impurity; he has dishonored his brother. They will be childless.

Leviticus 20:21

“‘If a man has sexual relations with his aunt, he has dishonored his uncle. They will be held responsible; they will die childless.

Leviticus 20:20

“‘Do not have sexual relations with the sister of either your mother or your father, for that would dishonor a close relative; both of you would be held responsible.

Leviticus 20:19

“‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.

Leviticus 20:18

“‘If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They are to be publicly removed from their people. He has dishonored his sister and will be held responsible.

Leviticus 20:17

“‘If a woman approaches an animal to have sexual relations with it, kill both the woman and the animal. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Leviticus 20:16

“‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

Leviticus 20:15

“‘If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.

Leviticus 20:14

“‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Leviticus 20:13

“‘If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both of them are to be put to death. What they have done is a perversion; their blood will be on their own heads.

Leviticus 20:12

“‘If a man has sexual relations with his father`s wife, he has dishonored his father. Both the man and the woman are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Leviticus 20:11

“‘If a man commits adultery with another man`s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.

Leviticus 20:10

“‘Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.

Leviticus 19:29

“‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

Leviticus 19:20

Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:25

“‘Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the nations that I am going to drive out before you became defiled.

Leviticus 18:24

“‘Do not have sexual relations with an animal and defile yourself with it. A woman must not present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; that is a perversion.

Leviticus 18:23

“‘Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.

Leviticus 18:22

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor`s wife and defile yourself with her.

Leviticus 18:20

“‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness of her monthly period.

Leviticus 18:19

“‘Do not take your wife`s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is living.

Leviticus 18:18

“‘Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not have sexual relations with either her son`s daughter or her daughter`s daughter; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

Leviticus 18:17

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your brother`s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

Leviticus 18:16

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son`s wife; do not have relations with her.

Leviticus 18:15

“‘Do not dishonor your father`s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

Leviticus 18:14

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your mother`s sister, because she is your mother`s close relative.

Leviticus 18:13

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your father`s sister; she is your father`s close relative.

Leviticus 18:12

“‘Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father`s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

Leviticus 18:11

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your son`s daughter or your daughter`s daughter; that would dishonor you.

Leviticus 18:10

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father`s daughter or your mother`s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

Leviticus 18:9

“‘Do not have sexual relations with your father`s wife; that would dishonor your father.

Leviticus 18:8

“‘Do not dishonor your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; do not have relations with her.

Leviticus 18:7

“‘No one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:6

Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, “Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!”

Judges 19:30

When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.

Judges 19:29

He said to her, “Get up; let`s go.” But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.

Judges 19:28

When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.

Judges 19:27

At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.

Judges 19:26

But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.

Judges 19:25

Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don`t do such an outrageous thing.”

Judges 19:24

The owner of the house went outside and said to them, “No, my friends, don`t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don`t do this outrageous thing.

Judges 19:23

While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”

Judges 19:22

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.

Judges 16:1

In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.

Jude 1:7

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;

Galatians 5:19

She gave herself as a prostitute to all the elite of the Assyrians and defiled herself with all the idols of everyone she lusted after.

Ezekiel 23:7

clothed in blue, governors and commanders, all of them handsome young men, and mounted horsemen.

Ezekiel 23:6

“Oholah engaged in prostitution while she was still mine; and she lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors

Ezekiel 23:5

The older was named Oholah, and her sister was Oholibah. They were mine and gave birth to sons and daughters. Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 23:4

They became prostitutes in Egypt, engaging in prostitution from their youth. In that land their breasts were fondled and their virgin bosoms caressed.

Ezekiel 23:3

“Son of man, there were two women, daughters of the same mother.

Ezekiel 23:2

In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor`s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father`s daughter.

Ezekiel 22:11

In you are those who dishonor their father`s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.

Ezekiel 22:10

In you are slanderers who are bent on shedding blood; in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines and commit lewd acts.

Ezekiel 22:9

Then he said to the people, “Prepare yourselves for the third day. Abstain from sexual relations.”

Exodus 19:15

You will be pledged to be married to a woman, but another will take her and rape her. You will build a house, but you will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard, but you will not even begin to enjoy its fruit.

Deuteronomy 28:30

“Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his mother-in-law.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 27:23

“Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 27:22

“Cursed is anyone who has sexual relations with any animal.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 27:21

“Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father`s wife, for he dishonors his father`s bed.” Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

Deuteronomy 27:20

You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.

Acts 15:29

Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.

Acts 15:20

and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

1 Thessalonians 4:5

that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable,

1 Thessalonians 4:4

It is God`s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

1 Thessalonians 4:3

We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.

1 Corinthians 10:8

But if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. But those who marry will face many troubles in this life, and I want to spare you this.

1 Corinthians 7:28

Are you pledged to a woman? Do not seek to be released. Are you free from such a commitment? Do not look for a wife.

1 Corinthians 7:27

Because of the present crisis, I think that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

1 Corinthians 7:26

Now about virgins: I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord`s mercy is trustworthy.

1 Corinthians 7:25

But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:11

To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:10

But if they cannot control themselves, they should marry, for it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

1 Corinthians 7:9

Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.

1 Corinthians 7:8

I wish that all of you were as I am. But each of you has your own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

1 Corinthians 7:7

I say this as a concession, not as a command.

1 Corinthians 7:6

The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.

1 Corinthians 7:4

The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.

1 Corinthians 7:3

But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:2

Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”

1 Corinthians 7:1

Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.

1 Corinthians 6:18

Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”

1 Corinthians 6:16

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

1 Corinthians 6:15

You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.

1 Corinthians 6:12

nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:10

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men

1 Corinthians 6:9