Bible verses on purity remind us the importance of staying pure. All of what we are belongs to God, so we must stay pure in His name.
Being pure opens our hearts and minds to God and following in the footsteps of Jesus. It teaches us how to walk with God because He cannot make a home in us if we are tainted by sin.
These bible verses on purity are meant to create in us a clean heart so that we can be sanctified and set apart from this world (John 17:16-19). And, as 1 Peter 1:15-16 reminds us, we are called to be holy and pure, just as our Lord is holy and pure.
Corinthians 6:19-20 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-4
It is God’s will that you should be sanctified; that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable.
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Luke 11:34
Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are healthy, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are unhealthy, your body also is full of darkness.
1 Corinthians 6:18-19
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever wins sexually, sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.
Matthew 5:30
And if your right-hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
Ephesians 5:3
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.
Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.
Galatians 5:17
For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.
Matthew 5:28
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Proverbs 6:32
But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.
Romans 13:14
Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the flesh.
Titus 2:12
It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. 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 a way out so that you can endure it.
1 Timothy 5:22
Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have seuxal relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:13
You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.” The body, however, is not meant for seuxal immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Titus 2:4-5
Then they can urge the younger women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled and pure, to be busy at home, to be kind, and to be subject to their husbands, so that no one will malign the word of God.
Job 31:1
I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now for the matters you wrote about: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.”
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
24. Psalm 51:10
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.