Chastity

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Bible verses about “Chastity”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Exodus 20:14Thou shalt not commit adultery.
• Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
• Proverbs 2:10When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
• Proverbs 2:11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
• Proverbs 2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
• Proverbs 2:17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
• Proverbs 2:18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
• Proverbs 2:19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
• Proverbs 2:20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
• Proverbs 2:21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
• Proverbs 2:22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
• Proverbs 5:15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
• Proverbs 5:16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
• Proverbs 5:17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.
• Proverbs 5:18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
• Proverbs 5:19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
• Proverbs 5:20And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
• Proverbs 5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
• Proverbs 6:24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
• Proverbs 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
• Proverbs 7:1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
• Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
• Proverbs 7:3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
• Proverbs 7:4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
• Proverbs 7:5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
• Proverbs 31:3Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
• Matthew 5:28But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Acts 15:20But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
• Romans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• 1 Corinthians 6:13Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
• 1 Corinthians 6:14And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
• 1 Corinthians 6:15Know ye 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.
• 1 Corinthians 6:16What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
• 1 Corinthians 6:17But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
• 1 Corinthians 6:18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• 1 Corinthians 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• 1 Corinthians 7:1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
• 1 Corinthians 7:2Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
• 1 Corinthians 7:7For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
• 1 Corinthians 7:8I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.