Use this when
Use these Scriptures when sexual temptation, pornography, infidelity, exploitative relationships, or shame around the body needs truthful, grace-filled attention.
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Sexual Purity and a Body That Belongs to Christ
Practice
Flee what feeds temptation, establish practical barriers, seek accountable and trauma-aware support, honor consent, and replace secrecy with truth and Spirit-led habits.
Boundary
Purity teaching must never excuse abuse, blame victims, control another person's body, or reduce a person's worth to sexual history. Seek qualified help for compulsive behavior or trauma.
Declaration / Proclamation / Confession
My body belongs to the Lord and is precious to Him. I flee sexual sin, pursue righteousness with others who call on God from a pure heart, and receive grace to walk in truth, dignity, and self-control.
3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; 4each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Speak it
It is God's will that I be holy, so I abstain from sexual immorality. I know how to control my own body in holiness and honor, not in lustful passion, because I know God.
18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19Do 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; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.
Speak it
I flee from sexual immorality, because my body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who lives in me. I am not my own; I was bought at a price. Therefore I glorify God with my body.
22Flee from youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, together with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Speak it
I flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace. I run alongside those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
Speak it
Like Job, I make a covenant with my eyes. I will not gaze with desire where I have no right to look.
9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word. 10With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments. 11I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
Speak it
I keep my way pure by guarding it according to Your word. With all my heart I seek You; do not let me stray from Your commandments. I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
27You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ 28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. 30And if your right hand causes you to sin, 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 depart into hell.
Speak it
I will not entertain lust in my heart. I take sin seriously enough to cut off whatever leads me into it. My eyes and my hands belong to God.