Chastity
42 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
22 sections
- Abimelech
- Advantages of
- Boaz
- Breach of, Punished
- Commanded
- Consequences of Associating with Those Devoid of
- Drunkenness Destructive To
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Joseph
- Keep the Body In
- Motives For
- Paul
- Preserved by Wisdom
- Required in Heart
- Required in Look
- Required in Speech
- Ruth
- Saints are Kept In
- Shun Those Devoid of
- Temptation to Deviate From, Dangerous
- The Wicked are Devoid of
- Want of, Excludes from Heaven
Abimelech
- Genesis 20:4–5 Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent? …
- Genesis 26:10–11 “What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.” …
Advantages of
- 1 Peter 3:1–2 Wives, in the same way, submit yourselves to your husbands, so that even if they refuse to believe the word, they will be won over without words by the behavior of their wives …
Boaz
- Ruth 3:6–13 So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do. …
Breach of, Punished
- 1 Corinthians 3:16–17 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? …
- Ephesians 5:5–6 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. …
- Hebrews 13:4 Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
- Revelation 22:15 But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Commanded
- Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
- Proverbs 31:3 Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
- Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- Romans 13:13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
Consequences of Associating with Those Devoid of
- Proverbs 7:25–27 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. …
- Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
Drunkenness Destructive To
- Proverbs 23:31–33 Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. …
General Scriptures Concerning
- Exodus 20:14 You shall not commit adultery.
- Job 31:1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
- Proverbs 2:10–11 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. …
- Proverbs 2:16–22 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words …
- Proverbs 5:15–21 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. …
- Proverbs 6:24–25 to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress. …
- Proverbs 7:1–5 My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. …
- Proverbs 31:3 Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.
- Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
- Acts 15:20 Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- Romans 13:13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- 1 Corinthians 6:13–19 “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. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:1–2 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:7–9 I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:25–26 Now about virgins, I have no command from the Lord, but I give a judgment as one who by the Lord’s mercy is trustworthy. …
- 1 Corinthians 7:36–37 However, if someone thinks he is acting inappropriately toward his betrothed, and if she is beyond her youth and they ought to marry, let him do as he wishes; he is not sinning; they should get married. …
- Ephesians 5:3 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.
- Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
- Revelation 14:1–5 Then I looked and saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with Him 144,000 who had His name and His Father’s name written on their foreheads. …
Joseph
- Genesis 39:7–20 and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.” …
Keep the Body In
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 “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.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15–18 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! …
Motives For
- 1 Corinthians 6:19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
Paul
- 1 Corinthians 7:1 Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to abstain from sexual relations.
Preserved by Wisdom
- Proverbs 2:10–11 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. …
- Proverbs 2:16 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
- Proverbs 7:1–5 My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. …
Required in Heart
- Proverbs 6:25 Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
Required in Look
- Job 31:1 “I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
- Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Required in Speech
- Ephesians 5:3 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.
Ruth
- Ruth 3:10–11 Then Boaz said, “May the LORD bless you, my daughter. You have shown more kindness now than before, because you have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor. …
Saints are Kept In
- Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
Shun Those Devoid of
- 1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
- 1 Peter 4:3 For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
Temptation to Deviate From, Dangerous
- 2 Samuel 11:2–4 One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing— a very beautiful woman. …
The Wicked are Devoid of
- Romans 1:29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
- Ephesians 4:19 Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
- 2 Peter 2:14 Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.
- Jude 8 Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
Want of, Excludes from Heaven
- Galatians 5:19–21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; …
Related topics
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.