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Sexual Immorality in the Bible
What does the Bible say about sexual immorality? Bible verses about sexual immorality — the Greek word 'porneia' (πορνεία) — and what Scripture records.
What does the Bible say about sexual immorality?
The Bible addresses sexual immorality with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Jude 1:7
“Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.”
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Matthew 19:9
“I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."”
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1 Corinthians 6:18
“Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.”
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1 Corinthians 10:8
“Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.”
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Matthew 5:32
“but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.”
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Revelation 9:21
“They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.”
Revelation 17:2
“with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."”
Ephesians 5:3
“But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;”
1 Corinthians 6:13
“"Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.”
Acts 15:20
“but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.”
Romans 1:29
“being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,”
Revelation 18:9
“The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,”
Revelation 18:3
“For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundan...”
Hebrews 12:16
“lest there be any sexually immoral person, or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal.”
1 Corinthians 5:1
“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.”
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