Bible Verses About Chastity: General references

For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;

None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.

For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, And running waters out of thine own well.

Should thy springs be dispersed abroad, And streams of water in the streets?

Let them be for thyself alone, And not for strangers with thee.

Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

Asa loving hind and a pleasant doe, Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; And be thou ravished always with her love.

For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.

Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understandingthy kinswoman:

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

and God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us through his power.