Bible verses about "masturbation" | Thomson

Leviticus 15:16-17

16 And if any man's seed go from him by copulation, he shall wash his whole body with water, and be unclean until evening. 17 And every garment, and every skin on which the seminal matter may be, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the evening.

Romans 13:14

14 but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil its desires.

Romans 6:13

13 nor deliver up your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness; but deliver yourselves up to God, as brought to life from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness for God.

1 Corinthians 9:27

27 but I buffet my body and subdue it, lest having proclaimed the glad tidings to others I myself should be disapproved.

1 Corinthians 7:3-5

3 Let the husband render due benevolence to the wife; and in like manner the wife to the husband. 4 The wife hath not the power over her own body; but the husband: And in like manner the husband hath not the power over his own body; but the wife. 5 Withdraw not from each other, unless by mutual consent for a time, that you may devote yourselves to fasting and prayer. Then come together again that satan may not tempt you through your incontinence.

James 1:13-14

13 Let no one when tempted say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil, neither doth he tempt any one. 14 But every one is tempted by his own desire, when allured and ensnared.

Colossians 3:5

5 Mortify, therefore, with regard to your members which are on earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate passions, wicked desire, and that licentiousness, which is idolatry,

Matthew 5:28

28 But I say to you, whoever looketh on a married woman so as to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Galatians 5:19-21

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest"they are these"adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, fascinations, enmities, strifes, emulations, .animosities, contentions, factions, sects, 21 envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the like, of which I forewarn you, as I have indeed before declared that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God:

1 Corinthians 6:18

18 Flee fornication. Every other sin, which a man committeth, is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.

James 1:14-15

14 But every one is tempted by his own desire, when allured and ensnared. 15 In that case desire having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when grown up, produceth death.

1 Peter 2:11

11 beloved; I beseech you as strangers and sojourners to abstain from carnal lusts, which war against the soul:

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

3 for this is the will of God even your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication; 4 that every one of you know how to use his own vessel in sanctification and honour; 5 not in lustful indulgence, like the nations which know not God;

1 Corinthians 10:13

13 No trial hath come upon you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, and will not suffer you to be tried above your strength, but will with the trial make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

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