1. SEXUAL PERVERSIONS

     

    1. FORNICATION: porenia meaning whoredom, illicit sexual intercourse primarily referencing intercourse before marriage.
      1. Matthew 15:19; Mark 7:21 “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, fornication: these are the things which defile a man.”
      2. Acts 15:20, 29 “But that we write unto them, that they abstain from fornication…”
      3. Acts 21:25 “As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only they keep themselves from fornication…”
      4. Romans 1:29 “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication…”
      5. I Corinthians 5:1 “It is report 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.”
      6. I Corinthians 5:9-11 “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world…for then must ye needs go out of the world.  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator…with such an one no not to eat.”
      7. I Corinthians 6:9, 13, 18 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Be not deceived: neither fornicators…shall inherit the kingdom of God.  Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.  Flee fornication.  Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
      8. I Corinthians 7:2 “Nevertheless to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
      9. I Corinthians 10:8 “Neither let us commit fornication.”
      10. Galatians 5:19 “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; fornication…”
      11. Ephesians 5:3 “But fornication…let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.”
      12. I Thessalonians 4:3 “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor.”

     

    1. ADULTERY: moicheia meaning unlawful intercourse with others while being married.
      1. Matthew 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 he hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
      2. Matthew 15:19;Mark 7:21 “For out of the heart proceed adulteries…these are the things which defile a man.”
      3. Matthew 19:17-18 “Jesus: Keep the commandments…thou shalt not commit adultery…”
      4. John 8:4 “They say unto Jesus, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.”
      5. I Corinthians 6:9 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither adulterers…shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
      6. Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”
      7. James 4:4 “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?  Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

     

    1. CONCUPISCENCE: ephithumia meaning over desire, lust.
      1. Romans 7:8 “But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence.”
      2. Colossians 3:5-6 “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth…concupiscence…for which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.”
      3. I Thessalonians 4:4-5 “That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles, which know not God.”

     

    1. LUST: ephithumia meaning over desire, lust.

    hedone meaning lustful pleasure

    epithumeo meaning desires, to desire greatly

    a.       Matthew 5:27-28 “Ye have heard that it was said of 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.”

    b.      Romans 1:27 “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lusts one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”

    c.       Romans 6:12 “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.”

    d.      Romans 13:14 “But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.”

    e.       I Corinthians 10:6 “Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.”

    f.        Galatians 5:16 “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.”

    g.       Galatians 5:17 “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.”

    h.       Galatians 5:24 “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

    i.         Ephesians 2:3 “Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.”

    j.        Ephesians 4:22 “Put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.”

    k.      I Timothy 6:9 “But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.”

    l.         II Timothy 2:22 “Flee youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord with a pure heart”

    m.     Titus 2:12 “Teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously and godly in this present world.”

    n.       Titua 3:3 “For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.”

    o.      James 1:14 “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed.”

    p.      James 4:1 “From whence come wars and fightings among you?  Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?”

    q.      James 4:2 “Ye lust, and have not; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not because ye ask not.”

    r.        James 4:3 “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.”

    s.       I Peter1:14 “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance.”

    t.        I Peter 2:11 “Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.”

    u.       I Peter 4:2-3 “Tha he no longer should live the rest of him time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.  For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts…”

    v.       II Peter 3:3 “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.”

    w.     I John 2:16-17 “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

    x.       Jude 16, 18 “These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts.  How that they told you there shod be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.”

     

    1. AFFECTION: pathos meaning to suffer, a passionate desire
      1. Romans 1:26 “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.”

     

    1. INORDINATE AFFECTION: pathema meaning feeling, passion.

    a.       Colossians 3:5 “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; inordinate affection…”

     

    1. WITHOUT NATURAL AFFECTION: astorgos meaning without normal or natural affection, especially towards family, lack of love toward kindred.
      1. Romans 1:28, 31 “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being without natural affection.”
      2. II Timothy 3:1, 3 “This know also, that in the last days perilous ties shall come.  For men shall be without natural affection…”

     

    1. UNLCEANNESS: akatharsia meaning impurity

    maismos meaning pollution, defilement, moral

    sensuality.

    a.     Romans 1:24 “God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own harts.”

    b.     Romans 6:19 “For as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.”

    c.     Galatians 5:19 “Now the works of the flesh are manifest...uncleanness...”

    d.     Galatians 5:24 “They that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”

    e.     Ephesians 4:19 “Who being past feeling have given themselves over to work all uncleanness...”

    f.       Ephesians 5:3, 5 “But all uncleanness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.”

    g.     Colossians 3:5 “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth...uncleanness...”

    h.     I Thessalonians 4:7 “For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.”

    i.       II Peter 2:10 “But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness.”

     

    1. SODOMY/SODIMITES: qadesh meaning male prostitution, sexual relationship with same sex, anal or oral intercourse.
      1. Genesis 19:5-8 “Sodom.”
      2. Leviticus 18:22 “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
      3. Leviticus 20:13 “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
      4. Deuteronomy 23:17 “There shall be no sodomite of the sons of Israel.”
      5. I Kings 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.”
      6. I Kings 15:12 “And King Asa took away the sodomites out of the land.
      7. I Kings 22:46 “And the remnant of the sodomites, which remained in the days of his father Asa, he took out of the land.”
      8. II Kings 23:7 “And the king brake down the houses of the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house of the Lord.”

     

    1. HOMOSEXUAL: arsenokoites meaning lying with own sex.
      1. Romans 1:24, 26-27 “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”
      2. I Corinthians 6:9 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Be not deceived: neither effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind...shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
      3. I Timothy 1:10 “The law is made for...them that defile themselves with mankind...”

     

    1. BEASTILITY: Sexual acts with animals
      1. Exodus 22:19 “Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.”
      2. Leviticus 18:23 “Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you.”
      3. Leviticus 20:15-16 “If a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast.”
      4. Deuteronomy 27:21 “Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast.”

     

    1. INCONTINENT: akrasia meaning lack of self control, excess, unrestrained in moral sense.
      1. I Corinthians 7:5 “Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”
      2. II Timothy 3:1, 3 “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be... incontinent ...from such turn away.”

     

    1. INCEST: Sexual acts with kin
      1. Leviticus 18:6 “None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord.”
      2. Leviticus 20:11 “The man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
      3. Leviticus 20:12 “If a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.”
      4. Leviticus 20:20 “If a man shall lie with his uncle’s wife, he hath uncovered his uncle’s nakedness: they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.”
      5. Deuteronomy 22:30 A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.”
      6. Deuteronomy 27:20, 22-23 “Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt.  Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother.  Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law.”

     

    1. SPILLING SEED: scachath meaning to destroy or corrupt

    progeny mean offspring, descendants

    sperma meaning sperm

      1. Genesis 38:8-10 “And Judah said unto Onan, God in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up see to thy brother.  And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give see to his brother.  And the thing which he did displeased the Lord: wherefore he slew him also.”

     

    1. NAKEDNESS: ervah meaning to be naked, what is shameful, what is indecent, improper to be seen, expose, bare.
      1. Genesis 9:21-25 “And Noah drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.  And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.  And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.  And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.  And he said, Cursed by Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.”
      2. Exodus 20:26 “Neither shalt thou go up by steps unto mine altar, that thy nakedness be not discovered thereon.”
      3. Leviticus 18:6-21 “None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the Lord...”

     

    1. DEFILEMENT: miaino meaning moral stain, pollute, contaminate.
      1. Titus 1:15 “Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”
      2. Hebrews 12:15 “Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.”
      3. Jude 8 “Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.”

     

    1. EFFEMINATE: malakos meaning soft to touch, lewdness.
      1. I Corinthians 6:9 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Be not deceived: neither effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”

     

    1. CROSS DRESSING: Men & Women clothing and proper attire.
      1. Deuteronomy 22:5 “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.”
      2. I Timothy 2:9 “In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array.”
      3. I Peter 3:3 “Wives whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel.”

     

    1. RAPE: Forceful sexual intercourse
      1. Deuteronomy 22:23-27 “If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with...”
      2. Judges 19:22-30 “The men knew her and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to spring, they let her go...”
      3. II Samuel 13:6-29, 32-33 “Amnon took hold of Tamar and said unto her, come lie with me, my sister.  And she answered him, nay, my brother, do not force me; for no such thing ought to be done in Israel: do not thou this folly.  Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her and lay with her.”

     

    1. SEDUCTION: Luring to sex, entice.
      1. Exodus 22:16-17 “If a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.”

     

    1. LASCIVIOUSNESS: aselgeia meaning moral excess, licentiousness, absence of restraint, indecency, shameless conduct.
      1. Proverbs 6:24-25 “Keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman...”
      2. Proverbs 31:3 “Give not thy strength unto women.”
      3. Romans 13:13 “Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”
      4. Galatians 5:19 “Now the works of the flesh are...lasciviousness...”
      5. Ephesians 4:17-39 “Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness...”
      6. Ephesians 5:3 “But all ...uncleanness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.”
      7. I Peter 4:3 “For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness...”
      8. Jude 4 “For there were certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

     

    1. SENSUALITY: psuchikos meaning animal, corrupt desires and affections.
      1. Proverbs 6:24-25 “Keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.  Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.”
      2. James 3:15 “This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthy, sensual, devilish.”
      3. Jude 19 “These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.”

     

    1. MENSTRATION: Bleeding cycle of woman.
      1. Leviticus 20:18 “And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; the hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.”
      2. Ezekiel 18:6 “But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right, and hath not come near to a menstruous woman...”

     

     
     

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