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

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

for out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts,

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

It is commonly reported that there is lewdness among you, and such lewdness as is not named even amongst the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of an harlot?

Neither let us commit whoredom, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

when I come again, my God should humble me among you, and I should be grieved for many of those who have sinned heretofore, and have not repented of the impurity, and fornication, and lewdness which they have practised.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, such as, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it becometh saints:

Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification: that ye should abstain from fornication,

But I have a few things against thee; because thou sufferest the woman Jezabel, who saith that she is a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

But the fearful, and faithless, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and practiseth falshood.