Hebrews 12:16

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Hebrews 12:16

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

Any fornicator

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Any fornicator

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

For from within, out of the heart of men, come evil thoughts, fornications, theft, murder, adultery,

but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that does not occur even among pagans: a man has his father's wife.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!

We must not indulge in immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will have to mourn over many of those who sinned before and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and lewdness which they have practiced.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and beguiling my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the immoral, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.