'Immorality' in the Bible
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
For from the heart come evil plans, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, abusive speech.
Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except on the basis of sexual immorality, and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery."
You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"
but we should write a letter to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood.
[that you] abstain from food sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. [If you] keep yourselves from {these things} you will do well. Farewell.
But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter [after] deciding they should avoid food sacrificed to idols and blood and [what has been] strangled and sexual immorality."
Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to immorality, [that] their bodies would be dishonored among themselves,
(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you presented your members [as] slaves to immorality and lawlessness, [leading] to lawlessness, so now present your members [as] slaves to righteousness, [leading] to sanctification.
Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.
It is reported everywhere [that there] is sexual immorality among you, and sexual immorality of such a kind which [does] not [even exist] among the Gentiles, so that someone has the wife of [his] father.
Food [is] for the stomach, and the stomach for food, but God will abolish {both of them}. Now the body [is] not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.
nor commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed sexual immorality, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day,
[I am afraid] lest [when I] come again my God will humiliate me {in your presence}, and I will grieve over many of those who sinned previously and have not repented because of their impurity and sexual immorality and licentiousness that they have practiced.
Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness,
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),
Therefore put to death {what is earthly in you}: sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustful passion, evil desire, and greediness, which is idolatry,
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;
as Sodom and Gomorrah and the towns around them indulged in sexual immorality and {pursued unnatural desire} [in] the same way as these, are exhibited as an example [by] undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
But I have a few [things] against you: that you have there those who hold fast to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, to eat food sacrificed to idols and to commit sexual immorality.
But I have against you that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, the one who calls herself a prophetess, and teaches and deceives my slaves to commit sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
And I have given her time in order to repent, and she did not want to repent from her sexual immorality.
and they did not repent of their murders or of their magic spells or of their sexual immorality or of their thefts.
And another second angel followed, saying, "Fallen, fallen [is] Babylon the great, who caused all the nations to drink from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality."
with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who live on the earth became drunk with the wine of her sexual immorality."
And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, holding a golden cup in her hand full of detestable things and the unclean things of her sexual immorality.
For all the nations have drunk from the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich from the power of her sensuality."
And the kings of the earth will weep and mourn over her, those who committed sexual immorality and lived sensually with her, when they see the smoke of her burning,
because his judgments [are] true and righteous, because he has passed judgment on the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and has avenged the blood of his slaves {shed by} her hand!"
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Bible Theasaurus
- Atrocity (2 instances)
- Backsliding (16 instances)
- Corruption (44 instances)
- Depravity (9 instances)
- Evil (1602 instances)
- Immorality (65 instances)
- Impropriety (5 instances)
- Infamy (9 instances)
- Iniquity (310 instances)
- Knavery (2 instances)
- Wickedness (294 instances)
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