Bible Verses About Chastity: General references

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.

My son, keep my words, store up my commands with you.

Obey my commands, and live; guard my teaching like the pupil of your eye.

Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, "You are my sister"; call understanding your kinswoman;

so that they can keep you from unknown women, from loose women with their seductive talk.

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”? Maybe, but God will put an end to both of them. Anyhow, the body is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body.

God raised up the Lord, and he will raise us up too by his power.