Chastity
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Chastity’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 75 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Exodus 20:14 OT
“You shall not commit adultery.
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Job 31:1 OT
“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
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For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
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to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words, who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God; for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.…
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Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well. Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares? Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you. Let your spring be…
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to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.
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Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
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My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call…
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Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
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Matthew 5:28 NT
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
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Acts 15:20 NT
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
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Romans 13:13 NT
Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
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“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up…
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Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
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But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
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Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind. But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am. But if they don’t have…
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Now concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who has obtained mercy from the Lord to be trustworthy.
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Therefore I think that because of the distress that is on us, that it’s good for a man to remain as he is.
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But if any man thinks that he is behaving inappropriately toward his virgin, if she is past the flower of her age, and if need so requires, let him do what he desires. He doesn’t sin. Let them marry.
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But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no urgency, but has power over his own will, and has determined in his own heart to keep his own virgin, does well.
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But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
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Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,