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 honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder,

but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality such as is unknown even among pagans ??that a man has taken his father's wife!

Do you not know your bodies are members of Christ? Am I to take Christ's members and devote them to a harlot? Never!

Nor must we commit immorality, as some of them did ??and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them fell.

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

Still I have this against you: you are tolerating that Jezebel of a woman who styles herself a prophetess and seduces my servants by teaching them to give way to sexual vice and to eat food which has been sacrificed to idols.

but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds ??their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"