Topic
Sexual Sin
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Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. — read the full passage →
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
“You shall not commit adultery.
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. — read the full passage →
Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman. — read the full passage →
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, — read the full passage →
but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. — read the full passage →
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers,idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.
For though we walk in the flesh, we don’t wage war according to the flesh; — read the full passage →
Yahweh said to Moses, — read the full passage →
Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →
But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints; — read the full passage →
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — read the full passage →
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him. — read the full passage →
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, — read the full passage →
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →
Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
Let the husband render to his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. — read the full passage →
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. — read the full passage →
Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a husband commits adultery.
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →
For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin. — read the full passage →
that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
But if they don’t have self-control, let them marry. For it’s better to marry than to burn.
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, — read the full passage →
Don’t you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! — read the full passage →
I wrote to you in my letter to have no company with sexual sinners; — read the full passage →
Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. — read the full passage →
“‘You shall not lie with any animal to defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman give herself to an animal, to lie down with it: it is a perversion.
But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourwoman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside. — read the full passage →
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one. — read the full passage →
After these things, his master’s wife set her eyes on Joseph; and she said, “Lie with me.” — read the full passage →
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →
‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
There shall be no prostitute of the daughters of Israel, neither shall there be a sodomite of the sons of Israel. — read the full passage →
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →
“‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal. — read the full passage →
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →
He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. — read the full passage →
Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab; — read the full passage →
who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. — read the full passage →
I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery.”
A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
“Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods,” but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →
Neither shall you go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness may not be exposed to it.’
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, — read the full passage →
Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted.
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. — read the full passage →
Yahweh said, “Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous, — read the full passage →
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