Bible Verses About Chastity

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.

Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones.

The ways of Sheol--her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.

Its latter end--as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

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.

Have ye not known that your bodies are members of Christ? having taken, then, the members of the Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? let it be not!

have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

And he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit;

flee the whoredom; every sin--whatever a man may commit--is without the body, and he who is committing whoredom, against his own body doth sin.

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own,

And concerning the things of which ye wrote to me: good it is for a man not to touch a woman,

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

for I wish all men to be even as I myself am ; but each his own gift hath of God, one indeed thus, and one thus.

And I say to the unmarried and to the widows: it is good for them if they may remain even as I am ;

and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

And concerning the virgins, a command of the Lord I have not; and I give judgment as having obtained kindness from the Lord to be faithful:

I suppose, therefore, this to be good because of the present necessity, that it is good for a man that the matter be thus: --