Bible Verses About Chastity

My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.

Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.

Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,

That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.

Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.

Looke not thou vpon the wine, when it is red, and when it sheweth his colour in the cup, or goeth downe pleasantly.

In the ende thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrise.

Thine eyes shall looke vpon strange women, and thine heart shall speake lewde things.

Meates are ordeined for the bellie, and the belly for the meates: but God shall destroy both it, and them. Nowe the bodie is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the bodie.

And God hath also raised vp the Lord, and shall raise vs vp by his power.

Knowe yee not, that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

Doe ye not knowe, that he which coupleth himselfe with an harlot, is one body? for two, sayeth he, shalbe one flesh.

But hee that is ioyned vnto the Lord, is one spirite.

Flee fornication: euery sinne that a man doeth, is without the bodie: but hee that committeth fornication, sinneth against his owne bodie.

Knowe yee not, that your body is the temple of the holy Ghost, which is in you, whom ye haue of God? and yee are not your owne.

Nowe concerning the thinges whereof ye wrote vnto mee, It were good for a man not to touche a woman.

Neuertheles, to auoide fornication, let euery man haue his wife, and let euery woman haue her owne husband.

For I woulde that all men were euen as I my selfe am: but euery man hath his proper gift of God, one after this maner, and another after that.

Therefore I say vnto the vnmaried, and vnto the widowes, It is good for them if they abide euen as I doe.

But if they cannot abstaine, let them marrie: for it is better to marrie then to burne.

Nowe concerning virgines, I haue no commandement of the Lord: but I giue mine aduise, as one that hath obtained mercie of the Lord to be faithfull.

I suppose then this to bee good for the present necessitie: I meane that it is good for a man so to be.