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 honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

For it is from within, out of the hearts of men, that there come evil thoughts--unchastity, theft, murder, adultery,

But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles-a man, I hear, is living with his father's wife!

Do not you know that your bodies are Christ's members? Am I, then, to take the members that belong to the Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them acted, with the result that twenty-three thousand of them fell dead in a single day.

I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People,

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;

Yet I have this against you--You tolerate the woman Jezebel, who declares that she is a Prophetess, and misleads my servants by her teaching, till they commit licentious acts and eat idol-offerings.

But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'