33 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality
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flee licentiousness. no other sin that a man commits does affect the church as a body: but the licentious commits a fraud against the whole body to which he belongs.
I answer, with regard to the licentious, it is best for a man, to have his wife; and for a woman to have her husband.
we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.
But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,
"meat is design'd for the belly, and the belly for meat:" true, yet God has design'd both for destruction. now the body is not design'd for licentiousness, but for the glory of the Lord; since the Lord died for the glorification of the body:
and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;
and I tell you, that whoever shall put away his wife, except it be for adultery, and shall marry another, he committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her that is put away, causeth her to commit adultery.
Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? be not deceived: neither the licentious, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor the brutal,
neither let us commit fornication, as some of them did, of whom three and twenty thousand fell in one day.
now the effects of vicious passions are manifestly these, fornication, uncleanness,
so it was with Sodom, Gomorrha, and the neighbouring cities, who abandoning themselves to the same licentiousness and abominable passions, were made examples by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
but I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who counselled Balac to ensnare the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.
but my meaning was, not to keep company with any christian known to be vicious, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, no not even to eat with such a one.
nor did they repent of their murders, of their poisoning, of their brutality, nor of their robberys.
but I say unto you, whoever shall put away his wife, except in the case of adultery, is the occasion of her being an adulteress, and he that shall marry her is an adulterer.
I gave her space to repent of her fornication, but she repented not.
for from within, from the heart of man proceed wicked designs, adulteries, fornications, murders; thefts,
that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, from fornication, from animals that are strangled, and from their blood.
and I am afraid, God will humble me when I come again among you, and I shall bewail many who have formerly sinned, and have not yet repented of their impurity, their fornication, and dissoluteness.
out of the heart proceed evil designs, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimony, slanders.
I did not mean the vicious Gentiles, the misers, the raparees, or with idolaters; for then you must have gone out of the world.
Now as to the question you writ to me about; "whether it is best for a man not to marry?"
drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
who without remorse, have abandon'd themselves to brutality, in gratifying every lewd unnatural passion.
that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the flesh of strangled animals, and from fornication: you will do well to preserve your selves from these practices. farewel.
as for the believing Gentiles, we have given them by letter this decision, "they need only take care to abstain from meats offered to idols, from blood, from the flesh of animals strangled, and from fornication."
Mortify therefore your sensual appetites, fornication, impurity, irregular passions, wicked desires, and that licentiousness practised by idolaters.
let there be no licentious or profane person, such as Esau, "who sold his birth-right, for a single mess."
Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.
against licentiousness and unnatural passion, against men-stealers, lyars, perjured persons, and every thing that is inconsistent
"but without are the execrable, the poisoners, the licentious, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who are pleas'd with, or practise deceit.
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Hebrews 13:4Marriage is every where honourable, and that state is innocent: but the licentious and adulterers God will punish.
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