24 Bible Verses on Purity
What is purity?
What does it mean to live a pure life?
And what does the Bible say about purity?
The following Scripture verses, with the free printable download, will shed a light on what God’s purity is, and what He expects of us.
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.
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 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.
1 Timothy 5:22
Lay hands hastily on no one. Don’t be a participant in other people’s sins. Keep yourself pure.
Philippians 4:8
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
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.
2 Timothy 2:21
If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master’s use, prepared for every good work.
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the Lord weigheth the spirits
Proverbs 20:11
Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.
2 Corinthians 6:6-7
By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left.
Psalm 119:9
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Psalm 119:9
Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Romans 13:14
But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
Titus 2:5
To be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.
Philippians 2:14-15
Do all things without complaining and arguing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world.
Luke 11:34-35
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn’t darkness.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God.
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
1 Peter 1:22
Seeing you have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth through the Spirit in sincere brotherly affection, love one another from the heart fervently.
Exodus 20:14
You shall not commit adultery.