What Does the Bible Say About Chastity?

“And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.”

“But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;”

“There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

“And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.”

“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

“And she went down unto the floor, and did according to all that her mother in law bade her.”

“And it came to pass in an eveningtide , that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.”

“And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

“And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house. for she: or, and when she had purified herself, etc, she returned”

“I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?”

“When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;”

“Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:”

“To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;”

“Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.”

“For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.”

“None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.”

“That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.”

“For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.”

“But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. rooted: or, plucked up”

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.”

“Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.”

“Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.”

“Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.”

“Let 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. satisfy: Heb. water thee be thou: Heb. err thou always in her love”

“And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?”

“For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.”

“To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. of the: or, of the strange tongue”

“Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”

“My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.”

“Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.”

“Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.”

“Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:”

“That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.”

“Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.”

“For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.”

“Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.”

“Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup , when it moveth itself aright.”

“At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. an: or, a cockatrice”

“Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.”

“Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.”

“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

“But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.”

“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. honestly: or, decently”

“Meats 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. Meats: not flesh only, but food of any kind”

“And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.”

“Know 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 .”

“What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.”

“But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.”

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”

“What? 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?”

“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”

“Nevertheless , to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”

“For 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.”

“I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.”

“But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”

“Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.”

“I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be. distress: or, necessity”

“But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age , and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.”

“Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.”

“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”

“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”

“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”

“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;”

“Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:”

“Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.”

“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:”

“And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”

“These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb. redeemed: Gr. bought”

“And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.”