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ADULTERY,
FORNICATION, PORNOGRAPHY AND HOMOSEXUALITY IS SIN:
THESE CAN LEAD YOU TO HELL
1-ADULTERY
It is clearly written, THOU SHALT
NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
Adultery is a married person having sex with someone other than his wife. God’s
penalty in the Old Testament was death by stoning and a destroyed soul. The New Testament
allows for repentance, if a person truly will go and sin no more and trust in Jesus Christ
as their only hope of forgiveness.
Putting away a wife, except for FORNICATION, causes her to
commit FORNICATION. A man that marries a divorced woman commits FORNICATION.
A man that divorces his wife, except for FORNICATION and marries someone else is
committing adultery. A woman that puts away her husband and marries another person is
committing adultery. Even looking on a woman to lust after her is committing adultery with
her already in his heart. There are those whose eyes are full of adultery and that cannot
stop sinning. These are cursed children. However, if the unbelieving person departs from a
believer, the believer is not under bondage in such cases. The Scripture seems to indicate
the one who leaves or divorces the other (except for the cause of FORNICATION) is
an unbeliever.
There is also
a form of adultery that one can commit against God. To forsake God or to turn from
trusting in God to trusting in something or someone else is adultery against God. For
such, God can divorce that person. They can be assured that if they do not repent and are
still alive when the Great Tribulation comes, they will enter into it.
2-ADULTERY—THOU SHALT NOT
Ex 20:14-THOU
SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
Deut
5:18-NEITHER SHALT THOU COMMIT ADULTERY.
Mt 19:18-HE
SAITH UNTO HIM, WHICH? JESUS SAID, THOU SHALT DO NO MURDER, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY,
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL, THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS,
Mk 10:19-THOU
KNOWEST THE COMMANDMENTS, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT KILL, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT
BEAR FALSE WITNESS, DEFRAUD NOT, HONOUR THY FATHER AND MOTHER.
Lk 18:20-THOU
KNOWEST THE COMMANDMENTS, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DO NOT KILL, DO NOT STEAL, DO NOT
BEAR FALSE WITNESS, HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER.
Ro 13:9-FOR
THIS, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, THOU SHALT NOT KILL, THOU SHALT NOT STEAL,
THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS, THOU SHALT NOT COVET; AND IF THERE BE ANY OTHER
COMMANDMENT, IT IS BRIEFLY COMPREHENDED IN THIS SAYING, NAMELY, THOU SHALT LOVE THY
NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF.
Ja 2:11-FOR HE
THAT SAID, DO NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, SAID ALSO, DO NOT KILL. NOW IF THOU COMMIT NO ADULTERY,
YET IF THOU KILL, THOU ART BECOME A TRANSGRESSOR OF THE LAW.
Gal 5:19-NOW
THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE; ADULTERY, FORNICATION,
UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS.
3-THESE ARE ADULTERY
Ezek 16:32-BUT
AS A WIFE THAT COMMITTETH ADULTERY, WHICH TAKETH STRANGERS INSTEAD OF HER HUSBAND!
Mt 5:32-BUT I
SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, SAVING FOR THE CAUSE OF FORNICATION,
CAUSETH HER TO COMMIT ADULTERY.
Mt 5:32-AND
WHOSOEVER SHALL MARRY HER THAT IS DIVORCED COMMITTETH ADULTERY.
Mt 19:9-AND WHOSO MARRIETH HER WHICH IS PUT AWAY DOTH COMMIT ADULTERY.
Lk 16:18-AND WHOSOEVER MARRIETH HER THAT IS PUT AWAY FROM HER HUSBAND
COMMITTETH ADULTERY.
Mt 19:9-AND I
SAY UNTO YOU, WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, EXCEPT IT BE FOR FORNICATION, AND
SHALL MARRY ANOTHER, COMMITTETH ADULTERY.
Mk 10:11-AND HE SAITH UNTO THEM, WHOSOEVER SHALL PUT AWAY HIS WIFE, AND
MARRY ANOTHER, COMMITTETH ADULTERY AGAINST HER.
Lk 16:18-WHOSOEVER PUTTETH AWAY HIS WIFE, AND MARRIETH ANOTHER,
COMMITTETH ADULTERY.
Mk 10:12-AND
IF A WOMAN SHALL PUT AWAY HER HUSBAND, AND BE MARRIED TO ANOTHER, SHE COMMITTETH ADULTERY.
Mt 5:27,28-YE
HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY:
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER HATH COMMITTED ADULTERY
WITH HER ALREADY IN HIS HEART. (Note, this would also clearly include pornography.)
2 Pe
2:14-HAVING EYES FULL OF ADULTERY, AND THAT CANNOT CEASE FROM SIN;…CURSED
CHILDREN.
1 Cor 7:15-BUT
IF THE UNBELIEVING DEPART, LET HIM DEPART. A BROTHER OR A SISTER IS NOT UNDER BONDAGE IN
SUCH CASES: BUT GOD HATH CALLED US TO PEACE.
4-PENALTY FOR ADULTERY
Lev 20:10-AND
THE MAN THAT COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE, EVEN HE THAT COMMITTETH ADULTERY
WITH HIS NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE, THE ADULTERER AND THE ADULTERESS SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH.
Pv 6:32-BUT
WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING: HE THAT DOETH IT
DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL.
Jn 8:3-11-AND
THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES BROUGHT UNTO HIM A WOMAN TAKEN IN ADULTERY; AND WHEN THEY
HAD SET HER IN THE MIDST, THEY SAY UNTO HIM, MASTER, THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN IN ADULTERY,
IN THE VERY ACT. NOW MOSES IN THE LAW COMMANDED US, THAT SUCH SHOULD BE STONED: BUT WHAT
SAYEST THOU? THIS THEY SAID, TEMPTING HIM, THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE TO ACCUSE HIM. BUT JESUS
STOOPED DOWN, AND WITH HIS FINGER WROTE ON THE GROUND, AS THOUGH HE HEARD THEM NOT. SO
WHEN THEY CONTINUED ASKING HIM, HE LIFTED UP HIMSELF, AND SAID UNTO THEM, HE THAT IS
WITHOUT SIN AMONG YOU, LET HIM FIRST CAST A STONE AT HER. AND AGAIN HE STOOPED DOWN, AND
WROTE ON THE GROUND. AND THEY WHICH HEARD IT, BEING CONVICTED BY THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE,
WENT OUT ONE BY ONE, BEGINNING AT THE ELDEST, EVEN UNTO THE LAST: AND JESUS WAS LEFT
ALONE, AND THE WOMAN STANDING IN THE MIDST. WHEN JESUS HAD LIFTED UP HIMSELF, AND SAW NONE
BUT THE WOMAN, HE SAID UNTO HER, WOMAN, WHERE ARE THOSE THINE ACCUSERS? HATH NO MAN
CONDEMNED THEE? SHE SAID, NO MAN, LORD. AND JESUS SAID UNTO HER, NEITHER DO I CONDEMN
THEE: GO, AND SIN NO MORE.
Rev
2:22-BEHOLD, I WILL CAST HER INTO A BED, AND THEM THAT COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HER
INTO GREAT TRIBULATION, EXCEPT THEY REPENT OF THEIR DEEDS.
5-PORNOGRAPHY
Mt 5:27,28-YE
HAVE HEARD THAT IT WAS SAID BY THEM OF OLD TIME, THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY:
BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT WHOSOEVER LOOKETH ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER HATH COMMITTED ADULTERY
WITH HER ALREADY IN HIS HEART. (Note, this would also clearly include pornography.)
6-A NATION COMMITTING
(SPIRITUAL) ADULTERY AGAINST GOD
(ISRAEL OR JUDAH FORSAKING GOD; WORSHIPPING OTHER GODS)
Jer 3:9-AND IT
CAME TO PASS THROUGH THE LIGHTNESS OF HER WHOREDOM, THAT SHE DEFILED THE LAND, AND
COMMITTED ADULTERY WITH STONES AND WITH STOCKS.
Jer 5:7-HOW
SHALL I PARDON THEE FOR THIS? THY CHILDREN HAVE FORSAKEN ME, AND SWORN BY THEM THAT ARE NO
GODS: WHEN I HAD FED THEM TO THE FULL, THEY THEN COMMITTED ADULTERY, AND ASSEMBLED
THEMSELVES BY TROOPS IN THE HARLOTS' HOUSES.
Ezek
23:37-THAT THEY HAVE COMMITTED ADULTERY, AND BLOOD IS IN THEIR HANDS, AND WITH
THEIR IDOLS HAVE THEY COMMITTED ADULTERY.
7-PENALTY
FOR COMMITTING ADULTERY AGAINST GOD (WORSHIPPING OTHER GODS)
Jer 3:8-AND I
SAW, WHEN FOR ALL THE CAUSES WHEREBY BACKSLIDING ISRAEL COMMITTED ADULTERY I HAD
PUT HER AWAY, AND GIVEN HER A BILL OF DIVORCE; YET HER TREACHEROUS SISTER JUDAH FEARED
NOT, BUT WENT AND PLAYED THE HARLOT ALSO.
Hos 4:13-THEY
SACRIFICE UPON THE TOPS OF THE MOUNTAINS, AND BURN INCENSE UPON THE HILLS, UNDER OAKS AND
POPLARS AND ELMS, BECAUSE THE SHADOW THEREOF IS GOOD: THEREFORE YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL
COMMIT WHOREDOM, AND YOUR SPOUSES SHALL COMMIT ADULTERY.
8-WHORES OR HARLOTS
Hos 4:14-I
WILL NOT PUNISH YOUR DAUGHTERS WHEN THEY COMMIT WHOREDOM, NOR YOUR SPOUSES WHEN THEY
COMMIT ADULTERY: FOR THEMSELVES ARE SEPARATED WITH WHORES, AND THEY SACRIFICE WITH
HARLOTS: THEREFORE THE PEOPLE THAT DOTH NOT UNDERSTAND SHALL FALL.
9-THESE WILL OR HAVE COMMITTED ADULTERY
Jer 23:14-I
HAVE SEEN ALSO IN THE PROPHETS OF JERUSALEM AN HORRIBLE THING: THEY COMMIT ADULTERY,
AND WALK IN LIES: THEY STRENGTHEN ALSO THE HANDS OF EVILDOERS, THAT NONE DOTH RETURN FROM
HIS WICKEDNESS: THEY ARE ALL OF THEM UNTO ME AS SODOM, AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF AS
GOMORRAH.
Jer 7:9-WILL
YE STEAL, MURDER, AND COMMIT ADULTERY, AND SWEAR FALSELY, AND BURN INCENSE UNTO
BAAL, AND WALK AFTER OTHER GODS WHOM YE KNOW NOT?
Jer
29:23-BECAUSE THEY HAVE COMMITTED VILLANY (or vile things) IN ISRAEL, AND HAVE COMMITTED ADULTERY
WITH THEIR NEIGHBOURS' WIVES, AND HAVE SPOKEN LYING WORDS IN MY NAME, WHICH I HAVE NOT
COMMANDED THEM; EVEN I KNOW, AND AM A WITNESS, SAITH THE LORD.
10-MISCELLANEOUS VERSES
CONTAINING THE WORD ADULTERY
Hos 4:2-BY
SWEARING, AND LYING, AND KILLING, AND STEALING, AND COMMITTING ADULTERY, THEY BREAK
OUT, AND BLOOD TOUCHETH BLOOD.
Ro 2:22-THOU
THAT SAYEST A MAN SHOULD NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DOST THOU COMMIT ADULTERY?
11-DO NOT COMMIT
FORNICATION—IT IS SIN; RUN FROM IT
FORNICATION
is sexual intercourse between unmarried people.
1 Cor
6:18-FLEE FORNICATION. EVERY SIN THAT A MAN DOETH IS WITHOUT THE BODY; BUT HE THAT
COMMITTETH FORNICATION SINNETH AGAINST HIS OWN BODY.
1 Cor
10:8-NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION, AS SOME OF THEM COMMITTED, AND FELL IN ONE
DAY THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND.
1 Thes 4:3-FOR
THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, EVEN YOUR SANCTIFICATION, THAT YE SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM FORNICATION.
Acts 15:20-BUT
THAT WE WRITE UNTO THEM, THAT THEY ABSTAIN…FROM FORNICATION.
Acts
15:29-THAT YE ABSTAIN…FROM FORNICATION.
Acts
21:25-…KEEP THEMSELVES…FROM FORNICATION.
Col 3:5-(PUT
TO DEATH, THEREFORE, WHATEVER BELONGS TO YOUR EARTHLY NATURE-NIV); FORNICATION (or
sexual immorality), UNCLEANNESS (or impurity), INORDINATE AFFECTION (or lust), EVIL
CONCUPISCENCE (or desires), AND COVETOUSNESS (or greed), WHICH IS IDOLATRY.
Ro 1:29-BEING
FILLED WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, FORNICATION, WICKEDNESS, COVETOUSNESS,
MALICIOUSNESS; FULL OF ENVY, MURDER, DEBATE, DECEIT, MALIGNITY; WHISPERERS.
1 Cor 5:1-IT
IS REPORTED COMMONLY THAT THERE IS FORNICATION AMONG YOU, AND SUCH FORNICATION
AS IS NOT SO MUCH AS NAMED AMONG THE GENTILES, THAT ONE SHOULD HAVE HIS FATHER'S WIFE.
1 Cor 6:13-NOW
THE BODY IS NOT FOR FORNICATION, BUT FOR THE LORD; AND THE LORD FOR THE BODY.
2 Cor
12:21-AND LEST, WHEN I COME AGAIN, MY GOD WILL HUMBLE ME AMONG YOU, AND THAT I SHALL
BEWAIL (or be grieved over) MANY WHICH HAVE SINNED ALREADY (or earlier), AND HAVE NOT
REPENTED OF THE UNCLEANNESS AND FORNICATION AND LASCIVIOUSNESS WHICH THEY HAVE
COMMITTED.
Gal 5:19-NOW
THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE; ADULTERY, FORNICATION,
UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS. Note both adultery and fornication are put in the same
category.
Eph 5:3-BUT FORNICATION,
AND ALL UNCLEANNESS, OR COVETOUSNESS, LET IT NOT BE ONCE NAMED AMONG YOU, AS BECOMETH
SAINTS.
Rev
2:20-NOTWITHSTANDING I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST THEE, BECAUSE THOU SUFFEREST THAT WOMAN
JEZEBEL, WHICH CALLETH HERSELF A PROPHETESS, TO TEACH AND TO SEDUCE MY SERVANTS TO COMMIT FORNICATION,
AND TO EAT THINGS SACRIFICED UNTO IDOLS.
Rev 2:21-AND I
GAVE HER SPACE TO REPENT OF HER FORNICATION; AND SHE REPENTED NOT.
Rev
9:21-NEITHER REPENTED THEY OF THEIR MURDERS, NOR OF THEIR SORCERIES, NOR OF THEIR FORNICATION,
NOR OF THEIR THEFTS.
12-TO AVOID FORNICATION
1 Cor
7:2-NEVERTHELESS, TO AVOID FORNICATION, LET EVERY MAN HAVE HIS OWN WIFE, AND LET
EVERY WOMAN HAVE HER OWN HUSBAND.
13-FORNICATION ULTIMATELY
LEADS TO HELL AND ETERNAL FIRE
Judges
1:7-EVEN AS SODOM AND GOMORRHA, AND THE CITIES ABOUT THEM IN LIKE MANNER, GIVING
THEMSELVES OVER TO FORNICATION, AND GOING AFTER STRANGE FLESH, ARE SET FORTH FOR AN
EXAMPLE, SUFFERING THE VENGEANCE OF ETERNAL FIRE.
Rev 19:2-FOR
TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGMENTS: FOR HE HATH JUDGED THE GREAT WHORE, WHICH DID
CORRUPT THE EARTH WITH HER FORNICATION, AND HATH AVENGED THE BLOOD OF HIS SERVANTS
AT HER HAND.
Prov
7:2-27-KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, AND LIVE; AND MY LAW AS THE APPLE OF THINE EYE. BIND THEM
UPON THY FINGERS, WRITE THEM UPON THE TABLE OF THINE HEART. SAY UNTO WISDOM, THOU ART MY
SISTER; AND CALL UNDERSTANDING THY KINSWOMAN:
5-THAT THEY MAY KEEP THEE FROM THE STRANGE WOMAN (or adulteress), FROM
THE STRANGER (or wayward wife) WHICH FLATTERETH WITH HER WORDS. FOR AT THE WINDOW OF MY
HOUSE I LOOKED THROUGH MY CASEMENT, AND BEHELD AMONG THE SIMPLE ONES, I DISCERNED AMONG
THE YOUTHS, A YOUNG MAN (WHO LACKED) UNDERSTANDING (or judgment), (He was) PASSING THROUGH
THE STREET NEAR HER CORNER; (walking along in the direction of) HER HOUSE, IN THE
TWILIGHT, IN THE EVENING, IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT:
10-AND, BEHOLD, THERE (CAME OUT A WOMAN TO MEET HIM, DRESSED LIKE A
PROSTITUTE AND WITH CRAFTY INTENT-NIV). (SHE IS LOUD AND STUBBORN; HER FEET (NEVER STAY AT
HOME-NIV): NOW IS SHE WITHOUT, NOW IN THE STREETS, AND LIETH IN WAIT AT EVERY CORNER.) SO
SHE CAUGHT HIM, AND KISSED HIM, AND WITH AN IMPUDENT (or brazen) FACE SAID UNTO HIM, I
HAVE PEACE (or fellowship) OFFERINGS (AT HOME); THIS DAY HAVE I PAYED MY VOWS.
15-THEREFORE CAME I FORTH TO MEET THEE, (I HAVE LOOKED FOR YOU AND HAVE
FOUND YOU!-NIV). I HAVE (COVERED) MY BED WITH (COLORED LINENS FROM EGYPT-NIV). I HAVE
PERFUMED MY BED WITH MYRRH, ALOES, AND CINNAMON. COME, LET US (DRINK OF LOVE) UNTIL THE
MORNING: LET US (ENJOY) OURSELVES WITH (LOVE)! FOR (MY HUSBAND) IS NOT AT HOME, HE IS GONE
A LONG JOURNEY:
20-HE HATH TAKEN A BAG OF MONEY WITH HIM, AND WILL COME HOME AT THE DAY
APPOINTED. WITH HER MUCH FAIR SPEECH (or persuasive words) SHE CAUSED HIM TO YIELD (or led
him astray), WITH THE FLATTERING OF HER LIPS (or smooth talk) SHE FORCED (or seduced) HIM.
HE (FOLLOWED) AFTER HER STRAIGHTWAY, AS AN OX GOETH TO THE SLAUGHTER, OR AS A FOOL TO THE
CORRECTION OF THE STOCKS; TILL A DART (or arrow) STRIKE THROUGH HIS LIVER; AS A BIRD
(DARTING) TO THE SNARE, AND KNOWETH NOT THAT IT IS FOR HIS LIFE (or little knowing it will
cost him his life-NIV). In other words, hell awaits him. HEARKEN UNTO ME NOW THEREFORE, O
YE CHILDREN, AND ATTEND TO THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH.
25-LET NOT THINE HEART DECLINE TO HER WAYS, GO NOT ASTRAY IN HER PATHS.
FOR SHE HATH (BROUGHT) DOWN MANY WOUNDED (or victims): YEA, MANY STRONG MEN HAVE BEEN
SLAIN BY HER. HER HOUSE IS THE WAY TO HELL, GOING DOWN TO THE
CHAMBERS OF DEATH.
14-(SPIRITUAL) FORNICATION AGAINST GOD
2 Chr
21:11-MOREOVER HE MADE HIGH PLACES IN THE MOUNTAINS OF JUDAH, AND CAUSED THE INHABITANTS
OF JERUSALEM TO COMMIT FORNICATION, AND COMPELLED JUDAH THERETO.
Ezek
16:26-THOU HAST ALSO COMMITTED FORNICATION WITH THE EGYPTIANS THY NEIGHBOURS, GREAT
OF FLESH; AND HAST INCREASED THY WHOREDOMS, TO PROVOKE ME TO ANGER.
15-HOMOSEXUALS AND LESBIANS
To practice
homosexuality or lesbianism is an abomination to God. It is detestable to Him. In the Old
Testament, the judgment for such behavior was death. Their blood was on their own heads.
God clearly and unmistakably warns us in His Word not to do this. It is written:
Lev 18:22-THOU SHALT NOT LIE WITH MANKIND, AS WITH WOMANKIND: IT IS
ABOMINATION.
Lev 18:22-"'DO NOT LIE WITH A MAN AS ONE LIES WITH A WOMAN; THAT
IS DETESTABLE ." (NIV)
Lev 20:13-"'IF A MAN LIES WITH A MAN AS ONE LIES WITH A WOMAN,
BOTH OF THEM HAVE DONE WHAT IS DETESTABLE. THEY MUST BE PUT TO DEATH; THEIR BLOOD WILL BE
ON THEIR OWN HEADS." (NIV)
In Judges, men
having sex with men is clearly shown to be wicked and disgraceful.
Judges 19:22-23-NOW AS THEY WERE MAKING THEIR HEARTS MERRY, BEHOLD,
(some of) THE MEN OF THE CITY, CERTAIN SONS OF BELIAL (SURROUNDED THE) HOUSE ROUND,
AND BEAT AT THE DOOR, AND (SHOUTED) TO THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, THE OLD MAN, SAYING, BRING
FORTH THE MAN THAT CAME INTO THINE HOUSE, THAT WE MAY KNOW HIM (or so we can have
sex with him-NIV). AND THE MAN, THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE, WENT OUT UNTO THEM, AND SAID
UNTO THEM, NAY, MY BRETHREN, NAY, I PRAY YOU, DO NOT SO WICKEDLY; SEEING THAT THIS
MAN IS COME INTO MINE HOUSE, DO NOT THIS FOLLY (or disgraceful thing).
God clearly
and unmistakably shows in Romans that those who practice homosexuality and lesbianism are
worthy of death. They shall surely perish unless they repent. It is written:
Ro 1:18-32-FOR THE WRATH OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM HEAVEN AGAINST ALL
UNGODLINESS AND UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (or wickedness) OF MEN, WHO HOLD (or suppress) THE TRUTH
IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (or by their wickedness); BECAUSE THAT WHICH MAY BE KNOWN (ABOUT) GOD
IS MANIFEST IN (or plain to) THEM; FOR GOD HATH SHEWED (or made) IT UNTO THEM. FOR THE
INVISIBLE THINGS OF HIM FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD ARE CLEARLY SEEN, BEING UNDERSTOOD
BY THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE, EVEN HIS ETERNAL POWER AND GODHEAD (or divine nature); SO
THAT THEY ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE: BECAUSE THAT, WHEN THEY KNEW GOD, THEY (NEITHER GLORIFIED
HIM) AS GOD, NEITHER WERE THANKFUL; BUT BECAME VAIN (or futile) IN THEIR IMAGINATIONS (or
thinking), AND THEIR FOOLISH HEART WAS DARKENED. (ALTHOUGH THEY CLAIMED) TO BE WISE, THEY
BECAME FOOLS, AND CHANGED THE GLORY OF THE UNCORRUPTIBLE (or immortal) GOD INTO AN IMAGE
(to look like) CORRUPTIBLE MAN, AND TO BIRDS, AND (ANIMALS AND REPTILES). WHEREFORE GOD
ALSO GAVE THEM (OVER) TO (SINFUL DESIRES) THROUGH THE LUSTS (or sexual impurity) OF THEIR
OWN HEARTS, TO DISHONOUR THEIR OWN BODIES BETWEEN THEMSELVES (or for the degrading of
their bodies with one another-NIV):
25-(THEY) CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE, AND WORSHIPPED AND SERVED
THE CREATURE (or created things) (RATHER) THAN THE CREATOR, WHO IS BLESSED FOR EVER. AMEN.
FOR THIS CAUSE GOD GAVE THEM UP UNTO VILE AFFECTIONS (or shameful lusts): FOR EVEN
THEIR WOMEN DID CHANGE THE NATURAL USE INTO THAT WHICH IS AGAINST NATURE (or their women
exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones-NIV): The women became lesbians. AND (IN
THE SAME WAY) THE MEN, LEAVING THE NATURAL USE OF THE WOMAN (or the men also abandoned
natural relations with women-NIV), BURNED IN THEIR LUST (or were inflamed with lust) ONE
TOWARD ANOTHER; MEN (COMMITTED INDECENT ACTS WITH OTHER MEN-NIV), AND RECEIVING IN
THEMSELVES (THE DUE PENALTY FOR THEIR PERVERSION-NIV). AND EVEN AS THEY DID NOT (THINK
IT WORTHWHILE) TO RETAIN (THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD), GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A REPROBATE (or
depraved) MIND, TO DO (WHAT OUGHT NOT TO BE DONE-NIV); BEING FILLED WITH ALL
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (or every kind of wickedness), FORNICATION, WICKEDNESS,
COVETOUSNESS, MALICIOUSNESS; FULL OF ENVY, MURDER, DEBATE, DECEIT, MALIGNITY; WHISPERERS
(or gossips),
30-BACKBITERS (or slanderers), HATERS OF GOD, DESPITEFUL, PROUD (or
arrogant), BOASTERS, (THEY INVENT WAYS OF DOING EVIL-NIV), (THEY DISOBEY THEIR
PARENTS-NIV), WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING (or senseless), COVENANTBREAKERS (or faithless), WITHOUT
NATURAL AFFECTION (or homosexual), IMPLACABLE (or heartless), UNMERCIFUL (or
ruthless): WHO KNOWING THE JUDGMENT OF GOD (or although they know God’s righteous
decree-NIV), THAT THEY WHICH COMMIT SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF (or deserve) DEATH,
(THEY NOT ONLY CONTINUE TO DO THESE THINGS BUT ALSO-NIV) HAVE PLEASURE IN THEM (or also
approve of those who practice-NIV) THEM.
God’s
Word clearly and unmistakably states in 1 Cor chapter 6-NEITHER…ADULTERERS,…NOR
HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS…SHALL INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. It is God’s Word that
shall judge people in the last day. It is these very words that shall judge many in the
last day. People can twist God’s Word and say it does not mean what it says, but that
changes nothing. Unrepentant adulterers and homosexuals will perish.
1 Cor 6:9,10-KNOW YE NOT THAT THE UNRIGHTEOUS (or wicked) SHALL NOT
INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? BE NOT DECEIVED: NEITHER FORNICATORS (or the sexually
immoral), NOR IDOLATERS, NOR ADULTERERS, NOR EFFEMINATE (or male prostitutes),
NOR (HOMOSEXUAL OFFENDERS-NIV), NOR THIEVES, NOR COVETOUS (or greedy), NOR
DRUNKARDS, NOR REVILERS or slanderers), NOR EXTORTIONERS (or swindlers), SHALL INHERIT THE
KINGDOM OF GOD.
God destroyed
Sodom and the cities of the plain for wickedness and homosexuality. The message is
clear—don't do it.
Gen 19:4-17, 24-26-BEFORE THEY HAD GONE TO BED, ALL THE MEN FROM EVERY
PART OF THE CITY OF SODOM—BOTH YOUNG AND OLD—SURROUNDED THE HOUSE. THEY CALLED
TO LOT, "WHERE ARE THE MEN WHO CAME TO YOU TONIGHT? BRING THEM OUT TO US SO
THAT WE CAN HAVE SEX WITH THEM." These were homosexual men. LOT WENT
OUTSIDE TO MEET THEM AND SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND HIM AND SAID, "NO, MY FRIENDS. DON'T DO
THIS WICKED THING (NIV). Lot clearly shows homosexuality is a wicked thing. BEHOLD NOW, I
HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS WHICH HAVE NOT KNOWN MAN; LET ME, I PRAY YOU, BRING THEM OUT UNTO YOU,
AND DO YE TO THEM AS IS GOOD IN YOUR EYES: ONLY UNTO THESE MEN DO NOTHING; FOR THEREFORE
CAME THEY UNDER THE SHADOW OF MY ROOF. LOOK, I HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS WHO HAVE NEVER SLEPT
WITH A MAN. LET ME BRING THEM OUT TO YOU, AND YOU CAN DO WHAT YOU LIKE WITH THEM. BUT
DON'T DO ANYTHING TO THESE MEN, FOR THEY HAVE COME UNDER THE PROTECTION OF MY ROOF."
"GET OUT OF OUR WAY," THEY REPLIED. AND THEY SAID, "THIS FELLOW CAME HERE
AS AN ALIEN, AND NOW HE WANTS TO PLAY THE JUDGE! WE'LL TREAT YOU WORSE THAN THEM."
THEY KEPT BRINGING PRESSURE ON LOT AND MOVED FORWARD TO BREAK DOWN THE DOOR. These
homosexual men did not want women.
10-BUT THE MEN INSIDE REACHED OUT AND PULLED LOT BACK INTO THE HOUSE
AND SHUT THE DOOR. THEN THEY STRUCK THE MEN WHO WERE AT THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE,
YOUNG AND OLD, WITH BLINDNESS SO THAT THEY COULD NOT FIND THE DOOR. THE TWO MEN
SAID TO LOT, "DO YOU HAVE ANYONE ELSE HERE—SONS-IN-LAW, SONS OR DAUGHTERS, OR
ANYONE ELSE IN THE CITY WHO BELONGS TO YOU? GET THEM OUT OF HERE, BECAUSE WE ARE GOING
TO DESTROY THIS PLACE. THE OUTCRY TO THE LORD AGAINST ITS PEOPLE IS SO GREAT
THAT HE HAS SENT US TO DESTROY IT." SO LOT WENT OUT AND SPOKE TO HIS SONS-IN-LAW, WHO
WERE PLEDGED TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTERS. HE SAID, "HURRY AND GET OUT OF THIS PLACE,
BECAUSE THE LORD IS ABOUT TO DESTROY THE CITY!" BUT HIS SONS-IN-LAW THOUGHT HE WAS
JOKING.
15-WITH THE COMING OF DAWN, THE ANGELS URGED LOT, SAYING, "HURRY!
TAKE YOUR WIFE AND YOUR TWO DAUGHTERS WHO ARE HERE, OR YOU WILL BE SWEPT AWAY WHEN THE
CITY IS PUNISHED." Clearly, homosexuality is such a great sin in the eyes of God
that He determined to punish and destroy the entire city. WHEN HE HESITATED, THE MEN
GRASPED HIS HAND AND THE HANDS OF HIS WIFE AND OF HIS TWO DAUGHTERS AND LED THEM SAFELY
OUT OF THE CITY, FOR THE LORD WAS MERCIFUL TO THEM. AS SOON AS THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM OUT,
ONE OF THEM SAID, "FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES! DON'T LOOK BACK, AND DON'T STOP ANYWHERE IN
THE PLAIN! FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS OR YOU WILL BE SWEPT AWAY!"
24-THEN THE LORD RAINED DOWN BURNING SULFUR ON SODOM AND
GOMORRAH—FROM THE LORD OUT OF THE HEAVENS. THUS HE OVERTHREW THOSE CITIES AND THE
ENTIRE PLAIN, INCLUDING ALL THOSE LIVING IN THE CITIES—AND ALSO THE VEGETATION IN THE
LAND. Such is the judgment of the Lord on wickedness and homosexuality. BUT LOT'S WIFE
LOOKED BACK, AND SHE BECAME A PILLAR OF SALT (NIV).
1 Ki 14:24-AND
THERE WERE ALSO SODOMITES IN THE LAND: AND THEY DID ACCORDING TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE NATIONS WHICH THE LORD CAST OUT BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
Note: May the
reader be informed that we do not hate homosexuals, neither do we in any way support or
advocate violence against them. The purpose of addressing this issue is to inform
the reader that according to the Bible (which is the holy Word of God and the final
Authority) homosexuality is sin. It is not an acceptable, alternative lifestyle as
is being promoted in this generation. In recent years, a number of homosexuals have
come to realize this and have turned from their sins, repented of their old ways, having
received the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and are now serving God in truth.
Some even have ministries that reach out to homosexuals. If you are involved
in the sin of homosexuality and want out, there is hope for you through Jesus Christ.
However, you must completely forsake this practice and humble yourself before God
in truth.
16-SEX WITH ANIMALS: GOD’S
SENTENCE IS DEATH
Lev
20:15-16-"'IF A MAN HAS SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH AN ANIMAL, HE MUST BE PUT TO
DEATH, AND YOU MUST KILL THE ANIMAL. "'IF A WOMAN APPROACHES AN ANIMAL TO HAVE SEXUAL
RELATIONS WITH IT, KILL BOTH THE WOMAN AND THE ANIMAL. THEY MUST BE PUT TO DEATH; THEIR
BLOOD WILL BE ON THEIR OWN HEADS. (NIV)
17-WHORES OR SODOMITES
Deut
23:17-THERE SHALL BE NO WHORE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL, NOR A SODOMITE OF THE SONS OF
ISRAEL.
18-YOU SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS
Mt 7:16-YE
SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS.
Mt 7:20-WHEREFORE BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.
19-THE NATURAL MAN
CANNOT UNDERSTAND THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT
1
Cor 2:14-BUT THE NATURAL MAN (or man without the Spirit) RECEIVETH NOT THE THINGS OF THE
SPIRIT OF GOD: FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS UNTO HIM: (HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND THEM, BECAUSE
THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED-NIV).
1 Jn
2:11-HE…KNOWETH NOT WHITHER HE GOETH, BECAUSE THAT DARKNESS HATH BLINDED HIS EYES.
Mt 6:23-IF THEREFORE THE LIGHT THAT IS IN THEE BE DARKNESS, HOW GREAT
IS THAT DARKNESS! If a person believes he is going to heaven or believes he is saved, yet
God’s Word clearly shows that he is not saved—the darkness or deception in that
person’s heart is very, very great.
20-WILL THESE INCREASE IN THE FUTURE?
As birth pangs
of a woman, these things will increase during these latter days. During the Tribulation,
they will continue to increase until finally the King of kings returns at Armageddon. In
that day, this wickedness will end as few will be left alive on planet earth.
21-THE MESSAGE IS CLEAR—FLEE FROM
THESE
The message is
clear. Flee from fornication. Flee from adultery. Flee from homosexuality. Flee from
harlots. Flee from pornography. These all are pathways to hell. He that hath ears to hear,
let him hear. EVERYONE WHO CONFESSES THE NAME OF THE LORD MUST TURN AWAY FROM
WICKEDNESS-2 Tim 2:19 NIV. Because, as it is written, WITHOUT HOLINESS, NO ONE WILL
SEE THE LORD-Heb 12:14 NIV.
22-SEX WITHIN MARRIAGE
Regarding sex within marriage, the Bible is very clear. Heb 13:4-Marriage is honourable in
all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
23-THERE IS HOPE
There is hope.
That hope is centered in Jesus Christ. Repent and receive Jesus Christ as your only hope
of salvation. If you will turn your life over to Him, He can and will forgive you, heal
you, and give you the strength to overcome all things. |