Bible verses about "sex" | ACV

¹⁴ Thou shall not commit adultery.

³² He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.

⁵ Put to death therefore your body-parts on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

¹³ The foods are for the belly and the belly for foods, but God will abolish both this and these things. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

⁹ Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals, ¹⁰ nor greedy men, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the slanderous, nor the predatory will inherit the kingdom of God.

¹³ Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy. ¹⁴ But clothe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no forethought for lusts of the flesh.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, wraths, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

⁷ And it came to pass, after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph, and she said, Lie with me. ⁸ But he refused, and said to his master's wife, Behold, my master does not know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand. ⁹ He is not greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but thee, because thou are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God? ¹⁰ And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day by day, that he did not hearken to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body. ¹⁹ Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? And ye are not your own, ²⁰ for ye were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and your spirit, which is of God.

⁵ Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

²⁸ But I say to you, that every man who looks on a woman to crave her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, ⁴ for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence, ⁵ not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of thy youth: ¹⁹ a loving hind and a pleasant doe. Let her breasts satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love.

² But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

²⁴ Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cling to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh.

¹⁸ Flee fornication. Every sin, whatever a man may do, is outside the body, but he who fornicates sins against his own body.

³ Let the husband render the goodwill owed to the wife, and likewise also the wife to the husband. ⁴ The wife has not the right of her private body, but the husband, and likewise also the husband has not the right of his private body, but the wife. ⁵ Do not defraud each other except from agreement for a time, so that ye may have time for fasting and prayer. And come together again for the same thing, so that Satan not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

⁴ Marriage is precious in every way, and the undefiled bed, but God will judge fornicators and adulterers.