Being Gay

`And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

`And with a male thou dost not lie as one lieth with a woman; abomination it <FI>is<Fi> .

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, — read the full passage →

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God-- — read the full passage →

and also a whoremonger hath been in the land; they have done according to all the abominations of the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from the presence of the sons of Israel.

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled, — read the full passage →

Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto Jehovah, saying: `Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His people.' Nor say let the eunuch, `Lo, I am a tree dried up,' — read the full passage →

And it came to pass, when Jesus finished these words, he removed from Galilee, and did come to the borders of Judea, beyond the Jordan, — read the full passage →

and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

Lo, this hath been the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, Arrogancy, fulness of bread, and quiet ease, Have been to her and to her daughters, And the hand of the afflicted and needy She hath not strengthened. — read the full passage →

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to a command of God our Saviour, and of the Lord Jesus Christ our hope, — read the full passage →

And it cometh to pass, in those days, when there is no king in Israel, that there is a man a Levite, a sojourner in the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he taketh to him a wife, a concubine, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah; — read the full passage →

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

`One wounded, bruised, or cut in the member doth not enter into the assembly of Jehovah;

And he said--`That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; — read the full passage →

And he breaketh down the houses of the whoremongers that <FI>are<Fi> in the house of Jehovah, where the women are weaving houses for the shrine.

And Jehovah appeareth unto him among the oaks of Mamre, and he is sitting at the opening of the tent, about the heat of the day; — read the full passage →

but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God--to those believing in his name,

And a messenger of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, `Arise, and go on toward the south, on the way that is going down from Jerusalem to Gaza,' --this is desert. — read the full passage →

Therefore, thou art inexcusable, O man--every one who is judging--for in that in which thou dost judge the other, thyself thou dost condemn, for the same things thou dost practise who art judging, — read the full passage →

And the remnant of the whoremongers who were left in the days of Asa his father he took away out of the land;

and he, having left all, having arisen, did follow him. — read the full passage →

`And I have given My tabernacle in your midst, and My soul doth not loathe you; — read the full passage →

who also shall confirm you unto the end--unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

And Jehovah hath looked after Sarah as He hath said, and Jehovah doth to Sarah as He hath spoken; — read the full passage →

Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept--called, — read the full passage →

For I have no pleasure in the death of the dying, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, And turn ye back and live!

`Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city; — read the full passage →

Let brotherly love remain; — read the full passage →

For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him; — read the full passage →

if after the manner of a man with wild beasts I fought in Ephesus, what the advantage to me if the dead do not rise? let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die! — read the full passage →

and I have appointed a place for My people, for Israel, and have planted it, and it hath tabernacled in its place, and it is not troubled any more, and the sons of perverseness do not add to afflict it any more, as in the beginning, — read the full passage →

`The habiliments of a man are not on a woman, nor doth a man put on the garment of a woman, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> any one doing these.

for from Jehovah it hath been to strengthen their heart, to meet in battle with Israel, in order to devote them, so that they have no grace, but in order to destroy them, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

and I say unto thee, Send away My son, and he doth serve Me; and--thou dost refuse to send him away--lo, I am slaying thy son, thy first-born.' — read the full passage →

and it was said to them that they may not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but--the men only who have not the seal of God upon their foreheads, — read the full passage →

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, — read the full passage →

Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know. — read the full passage →

and ye have kept My statutes and My judgments which man doth and liveth in them; I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah. — read the full passage →

He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart. — read the full passage →

And Elisha hath turned back to Gilgal, and the famine <FI>is<Fi> in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before him, and he saith to his young man, `Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.' — read the full passage →

In that day cover over doth Jehovah the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And the stumbling among them hath been in that day as David, And the house of David as God--As a messenger of Jehovah--before them. — read the full passage →

For there is no more any vain vision, and flattering divination, In the midst of the house of Israel. — read the full passage →

In My saying to the wicked: Thou dost surely die; and thou hast not warned him, nor hast spoken to warn the wicked from his wicked way, so that he doth live; he--the wicked--in his iniquity dieth, and his blood from thy hand I require. — read the full passage →

`Why have we fasted, and Thou hast not seen? We have afflicted our soul, and Thou knowest not.' Lo, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, And all your labours ye exact. — read the full passage →

For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings <FI>are<Fi> against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory. — read the full passage →

The fool--in a day is his anger known, And the prudent is covering shame. — read the full passage →

Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not, — read the full passage →

Then Joshua calleth for the Reubenite, and for the Gadite, and for the half of the tribe of Manasseh, — read the full passage →

And God blesseth Noah, and his sons, and saith to them, `Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth; — read the full passage →

if we may say--`we have fellowship with Him,' and in the darkness may walk--we lie, and do not the truth; — read the full passage →

and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart; — read the full passage →

If, then, ye did die with the Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances? — read the full passage →

so that your enemy have I become, being true to you? — read the full passage →

Neither become ye idolaters, as certain of them, as it hath been written, `The people sat down to eat and to drink, and stood up to play;' — read the full passage →

to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. — read the full passage →

And it shall be in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of My Spirit upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; — read the full passage →

and she said, `No one, Sir;' and Jesus said to her, `Neither do I pass sentence on thee; be going on, and no more sin.' — read the full passage →

and he said to Jesus, `Remember me, lord, when thou mayest come in thy reign;' — read the full passage →

He also said, `Let them set a pure diadem on his head. And they set the pure diadem on his head, and clothe him with garments. And the messenger of Jehovah is standing, — read the full passage →

Only, let no one strive, nor reprove a man, And thy people <FI>are<Fi> as those striving with a priest. — read the full passage →

A kind man is rewarding his own soul, And the fierce is troubling his own flesh. — read the full passage →

I mention Rahab and Babel to those knowing Me, Lo, Philistia, and Tyre, with Cush! This <FI>one<Fi> was born there. — read the full passage →

And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Lo, he <FI>is<Fi> in thy hand; only his life take care of.'

and Peter raised him, saying, `Stand up; I also myself am a man;' — read the full passage →

And thou, when thou hast warned the wicked of his way, to turn back from it, And he hath not turned back from his way, He in his iniquity doth die, And thou thy soul hast delivered. — read the full passage →

The righteous is walking habitually in his integrity, O the happiness of his sons after him! — read the full passage →

The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it--shame, And a reprover of the wicked--his blemish. — read the full passage →

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

and not, as we are evil spoken of, and as certain affirm us to say--`We may do the evil things, that the good ones may come?' whose judgment is righteous. — read the full passage →

If <FI>from<Fi> delivering those taken to death, And those slipping to the slaughter--thou keepest back. — read the full passage →

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits. — read the full passage →

These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven <FI>are<Fi> abominations to His soul. — read the full passage →

Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me. — read the full passage →

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes. — read the full passage →

<FI> Beth.<Fi> With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe--according to Thy word. — read the full passage →

`Jehovah doth smite thee with madness, and with blindness, and with astonishment of heart; — read the full passage →

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

for let not that man suppose that he shall receive anything from the Lord-- — read the full passage →

For finding fault, He saith to them, `Lo, days come, saith the Lord, and I will complete with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah, a new covenant, — read the full passage →

Because of this it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside, — read the full passage →

in which once ye did walk according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience, — read the full passage →

and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.' — read the full passage →

And there cometh a great storm of wind, and the waves were beating on the boat, so that it is now being filled, — read the full passage →

and saying, `Reform, for come nigh hath the reign of the heavens,' — read the full passage →

Better <FI>is<Fi> the latter end of a thing than its beginning, Better <FI>is<Fi> the patient of spirit, than the haughty of spirit. — read the full passage →

A crooked thing <FI>one<Fi> is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered. — read the full passage →

Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity? — read the full passage →

and Onan knoweth that the seed is not <FI>reckoned<Fi> his; and it hath come to pass, if he hath gone in unto his brother's wife, that he hath destroyed <FI>it<Fi> to the earth, so as not to give seed to his brother; — read the full passage →

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God; — read the full passage →

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace. — read the full passage →

And his disciples James and John having seen, said, `Sir, wilt thou <FI>that<Fi> we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?' — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is--to God. — read the full passage →

Lo, I have refined thee, and not with silver, I have chosen thee in a furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end. — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --`On the Gittith By sons of Korah.' --A Psalm. How beloved Thy tabernacles, Jehovah of Hosts! — read the full passage →

To the Overseer. --`Destroy not.' --A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men? — read the full passage →

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave <FI>it<Fi> , Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper. — read the full passage →

and many days <FI>are<Fi> to Israel without a true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law, — read the full passage →