Bible Verses About Chastity: General references

For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant,

Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And the covenant of her God hath forgotten.

For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

That thou dost go in the way of the good, And the paths of the righteous dost keep.

For the upright do inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,

And the wicked from the earth are cut off, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

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

Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou art .' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

the meats are for the belly, and the belly for the meats. And God both this and these shall make useless; and the body is not for whoredom, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body;

and God both the Lord did raise, and us will raise up through His power.