Bible Verses About Chastity

Nowe therefore after these thinges, his masters wife cast her eyes vpon Ioseph, and saide, Lye with me.

But he refused and said to his masters wife, Beholde, my master knoweth not what he hath in the house with me, but hath committed all that he hath to mine hande.

There is no man greater in this house then I: neither hath he kept any thing from me, but only thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickednes and so sinne against God?

And albeit she spake to Ioseph day by day, yet he hearkened not vnto her, to lye with her, or to be in her company.

And when it was euening tide, Dauid arose out of his bed, and walked vpon the roofe of the Kings palace: and from the roofe he sawe a woman washing her selfe: and the woman was very beautifull to looke vpon.

And Dauid sent and inquired what woman it was: and one sayde, Is not this Bath-sheba the daughter of Eliam, wife to Vriah the Hittite?

Then Dauid sent messengers, and tooke her away: and she came vnto him and he lay with her: (now she was purified from her vncleannes) and she returned vnto her house.

When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,

Then shall counsell preserue thee, and vnderstanding shall keepe thee,

And it shall deliuer thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger, which flattereth with her wordes.

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the couenant of her God.

Surely her house tendeth to death, and her paths vnto the dead.

All they that goe vnto her, returne not againe, neither take they holde of the wayes of life.

Therefore walke thou in the way of good men, and keepe the wayes of the righteous.

For the iust shall dwell in the land, and the vpright men shall remaine in it.

But the wicked shalbe cut off from ye earth, and the transgressours shalbe rooted out of it.

Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.

Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.

Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.

To keepe thee from the wicked woman, and from ye flatterie of ye tongue of a strange woman.

Desire not her beautie in thine heart, neither let her take thee with her eye lids.