What are some Bible verses about fornication?

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Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be esteemed by all, and may the marriage bed remain pure, for God will judge those who engage in sexual immorality and adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18-20

Avoid sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is external to the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against their own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own, for you were purchased with a price. Therefore, glorify God with your body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

Due to the temptation of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

Galatians 5:19-21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and similar things. I warn you, as I have warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

John 8:41-42

“You are doing the works your father did,” they said to him. “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father—God.” Jesus told them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now I am here. I did not come on my own, but he sent me.”

Matthew 5:32

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 19:9

And I tell you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 5:1

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, of a kind that is not even tolerated among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife.

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has overtaken you.Take you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and He will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation He will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

1 Corinthians 6:13

“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Mark 7:20-23

And He said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Colossians 3:5

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Jude 1:7

Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among

Saints.

1 Thessalonians 4:3-4

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

Exodus 22:16-17

If a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife. If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

Romans 12:1-2

I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Unless otherwise noted, all Bible verses are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® Copyright© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.

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