5 Bible Verses about Sodomy
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And likewise also the males, having left the natural use of the female, burned in their lust toward each other, males with males producing shamelessness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their deviancy that was fitting
And they called to Lot, and said to him, Where are the men who came in to thee this night? Bring them out to us, that we may know them. And Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. And he said, I pray you, my brothers, do not so wickedly.
Or know ye not that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not led astray. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate men, nor homosexuals,
And if a man lays with a man, as with a woman, both of them have committed abomination. They shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Because of this God gave them up to shameful passions, for even their females changed the natural use into what is against nature.
From Thematic Bible
Abomination » Things that are, to God » Sodomy
Thou shall not lay with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination. And thou shall not lay with any beast to defile thyself with it, nor shall any woman stand before a beast, to lay down with it. It is a perversion.
Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Sodomy
Thou shall not lay with mankind, as with womankind. It is abomination.
And if a man lays with a man, as with a woman, both of them have committed abomination. They shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Rulers' » Righteous » Instances of » Asa » Abolishing » Sodomy
And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of LORD as David his father did. And he put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made. And also he removed Maacah his grandmother from being queen because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. And Asa cut down her image, and burnt it at the brook Kidron. read more.
But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with LORD all his days. And he brought into the house of LORD the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.
And Asa did that which was good and right in the eyes of LORD his God. For he took away the foreign altars, and the high places, and broke down the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and commanded Judah to seek LORD, the God of their fathers, and to do the law and the commandment. read more.
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images. And the kingdom was quiet before him.
