What does the Bible say about fornication?

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Rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY) · Scripture: World English Bible

• Hebrews 13:4 4 votes

  Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 4 votes

  Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

• 1 Corinthians 7:2 3 votes

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

• Galatians 5:19-21 3 votes

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18 3 votes

  Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

• John 8:41-42 2 votes

  You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.” Therefore Jesus said to them, “If God were your father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For I haven’t come of myself, but he sent me.

• Matthew 5:32 2 votes

  but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.

• Matthew 19:9 2 votes

  I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”

• 1 Corinthians 5:1 2 votes

  It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife.

• 1 Corinthians 10:13 2 votes

  No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.