In God's design for human relationships, sexual purity is highly valued as a reflection of one's devotion to Him. The apostle Paul instructs believers to flee from immorality in 1 Corinthians 6:18, and in 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5, he emphasizes the importance of controlling one's body in holiness and honor. Scripture also acknowledges the challenges of temptation, assuring believers that God will not let them be tempted beyond what they can bear, as seen in 1 Corinthians 10:13. By fixing their eyes on God's Word, as encouraged in Psalms 119:37, and honoring the marriage covenant, as emphasized in Hebrews 13:4, believers can walk in sexual purity and bring glory to God.
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Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
So you too must count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires. Do not present the parts of your body to sin as instruments of wickedness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life; and present the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.