"For John came to you in the road of righteousness, and you did not give credence to him; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots gave credence to him. But you, although you saw this, did not even then change your minds and give credence to him.

"'But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with harlots, you have killed him the fatted calf.'

"You are doing the deeds of your father." "We were not born of adultery," they said; "we have one Father, God."

"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.

"that you abstain from food that has been sacrificed to idols, and from tasting blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keep yourselves clear from these things and it will be well with you. Farewell."

So God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their own bodies;

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. None who are immoral, or idolaters, or adulterers, or catamites, or sodomites,

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; such, for instance, as fornication, impurity, indecency,