Wisdom
Read the following Bible passages for powerful insight into God’s design for your sexual life.
| Matthew 5:28 | But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. …read this verse in context… |
| Mark 7:21-23 | For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man “unclean.”…read this verse in context… |
| Acts 15:29 | You are to abstain from…sexual immorality. …read this verse in context… |
| Romans 13:12-13 | So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. …read this verse in context… |
| 1 Corinthians 5:11 | I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. …read this verse in context… |
| 1 Corinthians 6:13 | The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord. …read this verse in context… |
| 1 Corinthians 6:18 | Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.…read this verse in context… |
| 2 Corinthians 12:21 | I am afraid that when I come again…I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged. …read this verse in context… |
| Galatians 5:16, 19 | So I say, live by Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature…. The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery. …read this verse in context… |
| Ephesians 5:3,4 | But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place. …read this verse in context… |
| Colossians 3:5-6 | Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. …read this verse in context… |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5,7 | It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God…. For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. …read this verse in context… |
| Hebrews 12:16 | See that no one is sexually immoral. …read this verse in context… |
| Hebrews 13:4 | Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. …read this verse in context… |
| 1 Peter 4:3 | For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. …read this verse in context… |
| Jude 7 | In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. …read this verse in context… |
| Revelation 2:14 | Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: You have people there who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin by eating food sacrificed to idols and by committing sexual immorality. …read this verse in context… |
| Revelation 2:20 | Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality. …read this verse in context… |
| Revelation 2:18 | But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death. …read this verse in context… |
| Matthew 28:20 | Jesus said, “I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” …read this verse in context… |
| John 3:20-21 | Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God. …read this verse in context… |
| Romans 6:6-7 | For we know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. …read this verse in context… |
| Mark 1:40-41 | A man with leprosy came and knelt in front of Jesus, begging to be healed. “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean,” he said. Moved with compassion, I Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” …read this verse in context… |
| Galatians 6:7-8 | Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. …read this verse in context… |
