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Verses dealing with sexuality
- Adultery
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Exodus 20:14 says, "You shall not
commit adultery."
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Matt. 5:27, “You have heard that it was
said, ‘You shall not commit adultery’; 28 but I say to
you, that everyone who looks on a woman to lust for her has
committed adultery with her already in his heart."
- Bestiality
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Exodus 22:19, "Whoever lies with
an animal shall surely be put to death."
- Lev. 18:23, "Also you shall not
have intercourse with any animal to be defiled with it, nor shall
any woman stand before an animal to mate with it; it is a
perversion."
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Lev. 20:16, ‘If there is a woman
who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman
and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their
bloodguiltiness is upon them.
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Fornication
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Acts 15:29, "...that you abstain
from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things
strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from
such things, you will do well."
- Homosexuality
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Lev. 18:22, "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a
female; it is an abomination."
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Lev. 20:13, "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who
lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put
to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them."
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Rom. 1:26-28, "For this reason God gave them over to degrading
passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
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in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in
their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in
their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28And just as they did not
see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those
things which are not proper."
- Immorality
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Matt. 15:19-20, "For out of the
heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, slanders. 20 “These are the things which
defile the man."
- 1 Cor. 6:9-10, "Or do you not know
that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit
the kingdom of God."
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1 Cor. 6:18, "Flee immorality.
Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the
immoral man sins against his own body."
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Eph. 5:3, "But do not let immorality
or any impurity or greed even be named among you, as is proper among
saints."
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Col. 3:5, "Therefore consider the
members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity,
passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry."
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1 Thess. 4:2, "For you
know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord
Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your
sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in
sanctification and honor, 5 not in lustful passion, like
the Gentiles who do not know God."
- Incest
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Lev. 20:11-12, "If there is a
man who lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his
father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death,
their bloodguiltiness is upon them. 12 ‘If
there is a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them
shall surely be put to death; they have committed incest, their
bloodguiltiness is upon them."
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Lev. 20:19-21, "You shall
also not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of
your father’s sister, for such a one has made naked his blood
relative; they shall bear their guilt. 20 ‘If there
is a man who lies with his uncle’s wife he has uncovered his
uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin. They shall die
childless. 21 ‘If there is a man who takes his
brother’s wife, it is abhorrent; he has uncovered his brother’s
nakedness. They shall be childless."
- Marriage
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Heb. 13:4, "Let marriage be held in
honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for
fornicators and adulterers God will judge."
Transvestitism
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Deut. 22:5, “A woman shall not
wear man’s clothing, nor shall a man put on a woman’s clothing; for
whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God."
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