Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning

You shall not commit adultery.

“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words …

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. …

…to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. …

Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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

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

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. …

Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.

But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. …

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.

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

However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married.

But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.

But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads. …