23 Bible Verses About Sexual Immorality

The Bible places sex within marriage and calls sexual immorality a sin against God and against one’s own body. Jesus carries “You shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14) to lustful intent (Matthew 5:27-28), Paul says to “flee from sexual immorality” (1 Corinthians 6:18-20), and Hebrews 13:4 asks that marriage be held in honor. In the New Testament, “sexual immorality” usually translates the Greek porneia, which Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance defines as “harlotry (including adultery and incest); figuratively, idolatry” and renders “fornication”.…