9 Bible Verses about Lasciviousness
Most Relevant Verses
Each of you should know how to control his own body in a dedicated and honorable way,
"Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food;" but God will destroy both of them. Yet the body is not intended for sexual immorality, but is intended for the Lord's [honor and service]; and the Lord is for the body's [benefit].
So then, you should no longer live the rest of your lives [to satisfy] the sinful desires of your body, but to do what God wants.
So, put to death [i.e., stop practicing the desires of] your physical bodies [such as] sexual immorality, [moral] impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is [in reality] idolatry.
We should be living properly, as in the daytime [i.e., when people normally behave themselves], not engaging in orgies and drunkenness; not practicing sexual immorality and indecent vices; not quarrelsome and jealous.
Or, do you not know that evil people will not possess God's kingdom? Do not be misled: neither will sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor those who are sexually unfaithful to their mates, nor homosexual perverts. [Note: The Greek uses two words here, denoting both the passive and active partners in male homosexual acts].
I am afraid that, when I come, my God will humiliate me in front of you, and I will be grieved over many [of those] who have sinned in the past without repenting of the [moral] impurity, sexual immorality and unrestrained indecency they have practiced.
For from within, out of people's hearts, proceed evil thoughts, sexual immorality, stealing, murder, extramarital affairs,
Now those things done by the sinful, physical nature [of a person] are evident; they are these: sexual immorality, moral impurity, indecent conduct,
From Thematic Bible
Lasciviousness » Instances of » David
Lasciviousness » Instances of » Persian kings
Lasciviousness » Instances of » Rehoboam
Lasciviousness » Figurative
Lasciviousness » Instances of » Lot's daughters
Lasciviousness » Instances of » The gibeahites
Lasciviousness » Instances of » Amnon
Lasciviousness » Instances of » Judah
Lasciviousness » Instances of » Solomon
Lasciviousness » Instances of » Eli's sons
Lasciviousness » Instances of » Sodomites
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- Death To Self
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- Idolatry