Question 139

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Proverbs 5:7

7So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Hebrews 13:4

4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Galatians 5:19

19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

2 Samuel 13:14

14But Amnon refused to listen to her, and being stronger, he violated her and lay with her.

1 Corinthians 5:1

1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.

Romans 1:24

24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

Romans 1:26-27

26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

27Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Leviticus 20:15-16

15If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.

16If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Matthew 5:28

28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 15:19

19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

Colossians 3:5

5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

Ephesians 5:3-4

3But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.

4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

Proverbs 7:5

5that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

Proverbs 7:21-22

21With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.

22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,

Isaiah 3:16

16The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty— walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing and skipping as they go, jingling the bracelets on their ankles—

2 Peter 2:14

14Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

Proverbs 7:10

10Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

Proverbs 7:13

13She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:

1 Timothy 4:3

3They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

Leviticus 18:1-21

1Then the LORD said to Moses,

2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God.

3You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs.

4You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.

5Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. I am the LORD.

6None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

7You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

8You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.

9You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

10You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.

11You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

12You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

13You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

14You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt.

15You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

16You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.

17You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved.

18You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.

19You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period.

20You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her.

21You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Mark 6:18

18For John had been telling Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife!”

Malachi 2:11-12

11Judah has broken faith; an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the LORD’s beloved sanctuary by marrying the daughter of a foreign god.

12As for the man who does this, may the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob everyone who is awake and aware—even if he brings an offering to the LORD of Hosts.

1 Kings 15:12

12He banished the male shrine prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

2 Kings 23:7

7He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the house of the LORD, where the women had woven tapestries for Asherah.

Deuteronomy 23:17-18

17No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

18You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

Leviticus 19:29

29You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

Jeremiah 5:7

7“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes.

Proverbs 7:24-27

24Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.

26For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.

27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

Matthew 19:10-11

10His disciples said to Him, “If this is the case between a man and his wife, it is better not to marry.”

11“Not everyone can accept this word,” He replied, “but only those to whom it has been given.

1 Corinthians 7:7-9

7I wish that all men were as I am. But each man has his own gift from God; one has this gift, another has that.

8Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.

9But if they cannot control themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.

Genesis 38:26

26Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.

Malachi 2:14-15

14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

15Has not the LORD made them one, having a portion of the Spirit? And why one? Because He seeks godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith with the wife of your youth.

Matthew 19:5

5and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’?

Malachi 2:16

16“For I hate divorce,” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence,” says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.

Matthew 5:32

32But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, brings adultery upon her. And he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 7:12-13

12To the rest I say this (I, not the Lord): If a brother has an unbelieving wife and she is willing to live with him, he must not divorce her.

13And if a woman has an unbelieving husband and he is willing to live with her, she must not divorce him.

Ezekiel 16:49

49Now this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed, and complacent; they did not help the poor and needy.

Proverbs 23:30-33

30Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks.

31Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly.

32In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

33Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will utter perversities.

Genesis 39:10

10Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

Proverbs 5:8

8Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,

Ephesians 5:4

4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

Ezekiel 23:14-16

14But Oholibah carried her prostitution even further. She saw the men portrayed on the wall, images of the Chaldeans, engraved in vermilion,

15wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads; all of them looked like officers of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

16At the sight of them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

Isaiah 23:15-17

15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years—the span of a king’s life. But at the end of seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

16“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”

17And at the end of seventy years, the LORD will restore Tyre. Then she will return to hire as a prostitute and sell herself to all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Mark 6:22

22When the daughter of Herodias came and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests, and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”

Romans 13:13

13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

1 Peter 4:3

3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

2 Kings 9:30

30Now when Jehu arrived in Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it. So she painted her eyes, adorned her head, and looked down from a window.

Jeremiah 4:30

30And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.

Ezekiel 23:40

40Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.