90 Bible Verses About Immorality

Bible verses about Immorality

Understanding God's perspective on immorality, as revealed through scripture, is crucial for our spiritual growth and well-being. The Bible offers guidance, not restriction, illuminating the path towards a life of purpose and fulfillment aligned with divine love. Examining these verses allows us to recognize the subtle ways immorality can manifest and to actively choose righteousness. It equips us with discernment, strengthens our resolve to resist temptation, and cultivates a deeper connection with God's grace. Embracing biblical teachings on this subject is not about judgment, but about seeking wisdom and pursuing a life that honors ourselves, our relationships, and ultimately, our Creator.

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Psalms 73:27 (KJV)

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Immorality in the Bible: Verses & Guidance

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

Proverbs 16:29KJV

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 7:27KJV

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

Isaiah 59:3KJV

O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

Psalms 7:3KJV

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

Genesis 49:4KJV

As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

Proverbs 11:19KJV

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Proverbs 5:5KJV

Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalms 51:5KJV

They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

Psalms 14:3KJV

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Proverbs 2:14KJV

They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

Jeremiah 6:28KJV

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Leviticus 18:25KJV

An ungodly witness scorneth judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.

Proverbs 19:28KJV

Add iniquity unto their iniquity: and let them not come into thy righteousness.

Psalms 69:27KJV

And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

Deuteronomy 29:17KJV

As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

Jeremiah 6:7KJV

There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

Isaiah 57:21KJV

Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

Isaiah 26:10KJV

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

Proverbs 2:15KJV

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

Genesis 19:7KJV

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Jeremiah 3:9KJV

For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

Job 15:5KJV

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

Psalms 7:14KJV

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Genesis 19:32KJV

Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

Psalms 73:12KJV

For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

Isaiah 28:8KJV

And she spake unto him according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me:

Genesis 39:17KJV

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

Proverbs 6:32KJV

How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

Jeremiah 5:7KJV

Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Psalms 91:8KJV

And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

Leviticus 17:7KJV

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

Leviticus 18:24KJV

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Proverbs 2:12KJV

Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?

Ecclesiastes 7:17KJV

(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)

Leviticus 18:27KJV

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

Proverbs 6:14KJV

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Proverbs 4:17KJV

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Isaiah 59:6KJV

If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

Job 11:14KJV

For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

Psalms 73:27KJV

And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.

Judges 21:11KJV

And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

Genesis 19:5KJV

Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

Isaiah 43:24KJV

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Proverbs 28:4KJV

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

Psalms 64:6KJV

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

Psalms 50:18KJV

For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.

Deuteronomy 18:12KJV

A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;

Jeremiah 5:30KJV

Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Job 22:5KJV

The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Proverbs 12:5KJV

When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

Proverbs 29:16KJV

The light of the righteous rejoiceth: but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

Proverbs 13:9KJV

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Proverbs 7:25KJV

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:16KJV

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Proverbs 5:8KJV

But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

Judges 19:25KJV

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

Job 24:15KJV

And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:

Deuteronomy 17:4KJV

And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the grove.

2 Kings 23:7KJV

And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Numbers 25:1KJV

And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Ecclesiastes 3:16KJV

For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

Deuteronomy 32:32KJV

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

Psalms 53:1KJV

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

Jeremiah 2:33KJV

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

Proverbs 7:26KJV

And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.

Numbers 28:22KJV

But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter:

Genesis 19:4KJV

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:2KJV

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Proverbs 2:19KJV

How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

Jeremiah 2:23KJV

They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.

Deuteronomy 32:5KJV

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

Proverbs 7:10KJV

There are the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast down, and shall not be able to rise.

Psalms 36:12KJV

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

Proverbs 23:27KJV

For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 18:29KJV

They joined themselves also unto Baal–peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Psalms 106:28KJV

And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel: for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

Judges 20:6KJV

But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

Isaiah 59:2KJV

In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes.

Psalms 26:10KJV

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Psalms 36:4KJV

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 10:2KJV

A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

Proverbs 17:4KJV

For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

Psalms 10:3KJV

But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.

Isaiah 57:3KJV

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

Psalms 10:7KJV

For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee.

Psalms 5:4KJV

What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

Jeremiah 11:15KJV

And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

Genesis 19:33KJV

Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.

Numbers 25:14KJV

For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.

Job 31:11KJV

In summary, the Bible offers clear and consistent guidance on immorality, encompassing sexual sin, dishonesty, greed, and other behaviors that violate God's moral law and harm ourselves and others. These verses serve as both a warning against the destructive consequences of immoral choices and an invitation to embrace a life of purity and righteousness. Reflecting on these passages compels us to examine our own hearts and actions, identifying areas where we may fall short of God's standard. Ultimately, choosing to live in accordance with biblical principles regarding morality is not about adhering to a rigid set of rules, but about experiencing the freedom, peace, and fulfillment that come from a life aligned with God's will and designed for our flourishing. May we strive to live lives that are pleasing to God, reflecting His love and truth in all we do.