CHASTITY

Passages on this topic · 76

• Genesis 39:7

  After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.”

• Genesis 39:8

  But he refused, and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, my master doesn’t know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.

• Genesis 39:9

  No one is greater in this house than I am, and he has not kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?”

• Genesis 39:10

  As she spoke to Joseph day by day, he didn’t listen to her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

• Genesis 39:11

  About this time, he went into the house to do his work, and there were none of the men of the house inside.

• Genesis 39:12

  She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.

• Genesis 39:13

  When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and had run outside,

• Genesis 39:14

  she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, “Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.

• Genesis 39:15

  When he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:16

  She laid up his garment by her, until his master came home.

• Genesis 39:17

  She spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,

• Genesis 39:18

  and as I lifted up my voice and cried, he left his garment by me, and ran outside.”

• Genesis 39:19

  When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, “This is what your servant did to me,” his wrath was kindled.

• Genesis 39:20

  Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

• Exodus 20:14

  “You shall not commit adultery.

• Ruth 3:6

  She went down to the threshing floor, and did everything that her mother-in-law told her.

• Ruth 3:7

  When Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. She came softly, uncovered his feet, and laid down.

• Ruth 3:8

  At midnight, the man was startled and turned himself; and behold, a woman lay at his feet.

• Ruth 3:9

  He said, “Who are you?” She answered, “I am Ruth your servant. Therefore spread the corner of your garment over your servant; for you are a near kinsman.”

• Ruth 3:10

  He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

• Ruth 3:11

  Now, my daughter, don’t be afraid. I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people knows that you are a worthy woman.

• Ruth 3:12

  Now it is true that I am a near kinsman. However, there is a kinsman nearer than I.

• Ruth 3:13

  Stay this night, and in the morning, if he will perform for you the part of a kinsman, good. Let him do the kinsman’s duty. But if he will not do the duty of a kinsman for you, then I will do the duty of a kinsman for you, as Yahweh lives. Lie down until the morning.”

• Job 31:1

  “I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?

• Proverbs 2:10

  For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

• Proverbs 2:11

  Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

• Proverbs 2:16

  To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

• Proverbs 2:17

  who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

• Proverbs 2:18

  for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

• Proverbs 2:19

  None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

• Proverbs 2:20

  that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

• Proverbs 2:21

  For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

• Proverbs 2:22

  But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

• Proverbs 5:15

  Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

• Proverbs 5:16

  Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

• Proverbs 5:17

  Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

• Proverbs 5:18

  Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

• Proverbs 5:19

  A loving doe and a graceful deer — let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

• Proverbs 5:20

  For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

• Proverbs 5:21

  For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.

• Proverbs 6:24

  to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

• Proverbs 6:25

  Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

• Proverbs 7:1

  My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

• Proverbs 7:2

  Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

• Proverbs 7:3

  Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

• Proverbs 7:4

  Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

• Proverbs 7:5

  that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

• Proverbs 31:3

  Don’t give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.

• Matthew 5:28

  but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

• Acts 15:20

  but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

• Romans 13:13

  Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

• 1 Corinthians 6:13

  “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.

• 1 Corinthians 6:14

  Now God raised up the Lord, and will also raise us up by his power.

• 1 Corinthians 6:15

  Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

• 1 Corinthians 6:16

  Or don’t you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, “The two”, he says, “will become one flesh.”

• 1 Corinthians 6:17

  But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit.

• 1 Corinthians 6:18

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

• 1 Corinthians 6:19

  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,

• 1 Corinthians 7:1

  Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

• 1 Corinthians 7:2

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

• 1 Corinthians 7:7

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 7:8

  But I say to the unmarried and to widows, it is good for them if they remain even as I am.

• 1 Corinthians 7:9

  But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.

• 1 Corinthians 7:25

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 7:26

  I think that it is good therefore, because of the distress that is on us, that it is good for a man to be as he is.

• 1 Corinthians 7:36

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 7:37

  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.

• Ephesians 5:3

  But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

• Colossians 3:5

  Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

• 1 Thessalonians 4:3

  For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

• 1 Thessalonians 4:7

  For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

• Revelation 14:1

  I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

• Revelation 14:2

  I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

• Revelation 14:3

  They sing a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the one hundred forty-four thousand, those who had been redeemed out of the earth.

• Revelation 14:4

  These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed by Jesus from among men, the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.

• Revelation 14:5

  In their mouth was found no lie, for they are blameless.