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Sexual Sin


“You shall not commit adultery.” (Exodus 20:14 - Commandment # 7)

“Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman. That is DETESTABLE.” (Lev. 18:22; see Leviticus Ch. 18)


“You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone WHO LOOKS AT a woman lustfully HAS ALREADY COMMITTED ADULTRY with her in his heart.” (Matt 5:27, 28)

“For out of the heart come EVIL thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man UNCLEAN…” (Matt 15:19-20)

“For from within, out of men's hearts, come EVIL thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these EVILS come from inside and make a man UNCLEAN.” (Mark 7:21-22)

Instead, we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood... It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following REQUIREMENTS: YOU ARE TO ABSTAIN FROM....SEXUAL IMMORALITY...You will DO WELL to avoid these things. (Acts 15:20, 28-29)

As for the Gentile Believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to animals...and from sexual immorality. (Acts 21:25)

Therefore, God gave them over in the SINFUL DESIRES of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another...Even their women exchanged natural relations for UNNATURAL ones. In the same way the men also abandoned NATURAL relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed INDECENT acts with other men, and recieved in themselves the due penalty for their PERVERSIONS. (Romans 1:24-27)

In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its EVIL desires. Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of WICKEDNESS, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and offer the parts of your body to Him as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but grace. (Romans 6:11-14)

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. (Romans 12:1-2)

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissention and jealousy. Rather, clothe yourselves with the LORD Jesus Christ and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature. (Romans 13:13-14)

I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people - not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolator or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat. (1 Corinth 5:9-11)

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders....will inherit the Kingdom of God...Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the LORD, and the LORD for the body...Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ Himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!...Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit, who is IN you, whom you have recieved from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your body. (1 Corinth 6:9, 13, 14, 18-20)

...I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual sin, and debauchery in which they have indulged. (2 Corinth 12:21)

DO NOT BE DECIEVED: GOD CANNOT BE MOCKED. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:7-8)

So I tell you this, and INSIST on it in the LORD, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. (Ephesians 4:17-19)

But among you there MUST NOT BE EVEN A HINT of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for GOD'S HOLY PEOPLE. (Ephesians 5:3)

Since you died with Christ to the basic principals of this world, why, as though you still belonged to it, do you submit to its rules? DO NOT HANDLE! DO NOT TASTE! DO NOT TOUCH! (Colo 2:20-21)

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming. (Colo 3:5-6)

It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality, that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust, like the heathen, who do not know God...for God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man, but God who gives you His Holy Spirit. (1 Thess 4: 3-8)

Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, and do not share in the sins of others. KEEP YOURSELVES PURE. (1 Tim 5:22)

Flee the EVIL DESIRES of youth, and PURSUE righteousness, faith, love and PEACE, along with those who call on the LORD out of a PURE HEART. (2 Tim 2:22)

Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy...see to it that no one is sexually immoral... (Hebrews 12:14-16)

Marriage should be honored BY ALL, and the marriage bed be kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral. (Hebrews 13:4)

As obedient children, do not conform to the EVIL DESIRES you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as He who called you is HOLY, so BE HOLY in all you do, for it is written: “Be HOLY, because I AM HOLY.” (1 Peter 1:14-15)

Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from SINFUL DESIRES, which war against your soul. (1 Peter 2:11)

As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for EVIL HUMAN DESIRES, but rather for the will of God. For you have SPENT ENOUGH TIME in the past doing what pagans choose to do - living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and DESTESTABLE IDOLATRY. (1 Peter 4:2-3)

...the LORD knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the Day of Judgment, while continuing their punishment. This is ESPECIALLY TRUE of those who follow the CORRUPT DESIRE of the sinful nature and despise authority. (2 Peter 2:9-10)

“So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways.” (Revelation 2:22)

(6 of 7 horrible plagues released upon the earth) The rest of mankind that were not killed by these plagues STILL DID NOT REPENT of the work of their hands...nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts. (Revelation 9:20-21)

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all the liars - their place will be IN THE FIREY LAKE OF BURNING SULFUR. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. (Revelation 21:8)

Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. (Revelation 22:15)