Bible Verses About Chastity

In time, the day came when his master's wife took a look at Yosef and said, "Sleep with me!"

But he refused, saying to his master's wife, "Look, because my master has me, he doesn't know what's going on in this house. He has put all his possessions in my charge.

In this house I am his equal; he hasn't withheld anything from me except yourself, because you are his wife. How then could I do such a wicked thing and sin against God?"

But she kept pressing him, day after day. Nevertheless, he didn't listen to her; he refused to sleep with her or even be with her.

Once, after his afternoon nap, David got up from his bed and went strolling on the roof of the king's palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing, who was very beautiful.

David made inquiries about the woman and was told that she was Bat-Sheva the daughter of Eli'am, the wife of Uriyah the Hitti.

David sent messengers to get her, and she came to him, and he went to bed with her (for she had been purified from her uncleanness). Then she returned to her house.

For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be enjoyable for you,

discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you.

They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk,

who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Her house is sinking toward death, her paths lead to the dead.

None who go to her return; they never regain the path to life.

Thus you will walk on the way of good people and keep to the paths of the righteous.

For the upright will live in the land, the pure-hearted will remain there;

but the wicked will be cut off from the land, the unfaithful rooted out of it.

Drink the water from your own cistern, fresh water from your own well.

Let what your springs produce be dispersed outside, streams of water flowing in the streets;

but let them be for you alone and not for strangers with you.

Let your fountain, the wife of your youth, be blessed; find joy in her

a lovely deer, a graceful fawn; let her breasts satisfy you at all times, always be infatuated with her love.

My son, why be infatuated with an unknown woman? Why embrace the body of a loose woman?

For ADONAI is watching a man's ways; he surveys all his paths.

They keep you from an evil woman, from a loose woman's seductive tongue.

Don't let your heart lust after her beauty or allow her glance to captivate you.