39 Bible Verses about Being Gay

If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman, they have both committed a detestable thing. They must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.

If you look with favor on the man wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here in a good place,” and yet you say to the poor man, “Stand over there,” or, “Sit here on the floor by my footstool,”

You are not to sleep with a man as with a woman; it is detestable.

for the sexually immoral and homosexuals, for kidnappers, liars, perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

For example, a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and a poor man dressed in dirty clothes also comes in.

The males in the same way also left natural relations with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.

In the same way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them committed sexual immorality and practiced perversions, just as angels did, and serve as an example by undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

“If a man is discovered having sexual relations with another man’s wife, both the man who had sex with the woman and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.”

My brothers, do not show favoritism as you hold on to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ.

A woman suffering from bleeding for 12 years

“The poor in spirit are blessed,
for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Yet you dishonored that poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts?

Those who are persecuted for righteousness are blessed,
for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Instead, you act unjustly and cheat—and you do this to believers!

The merciful are blessed,
for they will be shown mercy.

Instantly her flow of blood ceased, and she sensed in her body that she was cured of her affliction.

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?”

The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”

The pure in heart are blessed,
for they will see God.

The gentle are blessed,
for they will inherit the earth.

“You are blessed when they insult and persecute you and falsely say every kind of evil against you because of Me.

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Man cannot be made secure by wickedness,
but the root of the righteous is immovable.

Better a day in Your courts
than a thousand anywhere else.
I would rather be at the door of the house of my God
than to live in the tents of wicked people.

The fool is appointed to great heights,
but the rich remain in lowly positions.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,

A capable wife is her husband’s crown,
but a wife who causes shame
is like rottenness in his bones.

Let us be glad, rejoice, and give Him glory,
because the marriage of the Lamb has come,
and His wife has prepared herself.

He satisfies you with goodness;
your youth is renewed like the eagle.

The peacemakers are blessed,
for they will be called sons of God.

Better to be dishonored, yet have a servant,
than to act important but have no food.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

Be glad and rejoice, because your reward is great in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet: