What Does the Bible Say About Why Is Sex Considered Dirty?

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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 holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Romans 1:24-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Song of Solomon 7:6-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

15 Bible Verses about Why Is Sex Considered Dirty

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 1:24-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 7:6-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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15 Bible Verses about Why Is Sex Considered Dirty

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Genesis 1:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 6:18-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Genesis 2:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Ephesians 5:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 1:24-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Song of Solomon 7:6-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 5:18-19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes