For John came to you as a preacher of righteousness, and ye did not believe him; but the publicans and the harlots believed him; and ye, when ye had seen it, did not afterward repent, that ye might believe him.

But as soon as this thy son came, who devoured thy living with harlots, thou didst kill for him the fatted calf.

Ye do the works of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, God.

but that we should write to them by letter to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which hath been strangled, and from blood.

to abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Farewell."

Wherefore God also gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to debase their bodies with one another;

Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

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