19 Bible Verses about Licentiousness
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Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct,
But I discipline my body, and bring it into subjection, so that after I have preached to others I will not be disqualified.
I am afraid that the next time I come my God will humiliate me in your presence, and I shall weep over many who sinned in the past and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication and loose conduct that they have practiced.
Now the works of the flesh (sinful human nature) are apparent. They are: fornication, uncleanness, loose conduct, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects, envies, drunkenness, revelries, and things like these. I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that those who practice such things would not inherit the kingdom of God.
This I say therefore, and testify (affirm) in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the nations also walk, in the vanity (futility) (depravity) of their mind (thinking). They are darkened (blinded) (obscured) in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart. They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more).
For you know this with certainty, that no fornicator, no unclean person, no covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Make your members that are upon the earth dead with regard to fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (greed), which is idolatry.
not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God.
Among them are those who creep into houses and lead captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away with various lusts.
From now on you must live the rest of your earthly lives controlled by God's will and not by human desires (lusts).
But sin, finding occasion, worked out in me through the commandment all manner of coveting. Apart from the law sin is dead.
Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.
That which comes out of the man defiles the man. It is from the heart that evil thoughts come such as: fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, coveting, wickedness, deceit, loose conduct, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.read more.
All these evil things come from within and defile the man.
You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).
They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more). But you did not learn Christ that way.
Certain men crept in unnoticed. They were appointed long ago for this condemnation. These ungodly men turned the grace of our God into loose conduct. They deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
During the reign of King Josiah, Jehovah asked me: Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there.
They are past feeling. They have given themselves over to loose conduct, to work all uncleanness with greediness (a lust for more).
He met an evil hearted woman dressed seductively like an immoral woman. She is loud and rebellious and never stays at home. Now in the streets and squares, she waits at every corner.read more.
She put her arms around him and kissed him, and with an impudent look she said: I have peace offerings with me since I paid my vows. So I came to meet you and seek your presence. I found you. I covered my bed with fine linen from Egypt.
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