Scriptures
on
Sexual
Sin:
Adultery:
Although
it is
God's
desire
that sex
occur
exclusively
within
marriage,
human
beings
have
difficulty
adhering
to this
standard.
Perhaps
the most
prominent
sexual
sin
mentioned
in the
Bible is
that of
adultery.6
In the
Seventh
Commandment,
God
proclaims:
"You
shall
not
commit
adultery."7
If any
one does
so,
his/her
act will
not go
unpunished
by God.8
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"You
shall
not
commit
adultery."
(Exodus
20:14)7
Can a
man
scoop
fire
into his
lap
without
his
clothes
being
burned?
Can a
man walk
on hot
coals
without
his feet
being
scorched?
So
is
he
who
sleeps
with
another
man's
wife;
no
one
who
touches
her
will
go
unpunished.
(Proverbs
6:27-29)8
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In
addition
to
adultery,
the
Scriptures
specifically
condemn
having
sex with
prostitutes.9
Prostitutes
can be
seductive
and lure
people
spaceinto
temptation
and sin.10
If you
have sex
with a
prostitute,
you
become
"one
flesh"
with the
prostitute,
just as
husband
and wife
become
one
flesh
through
the act
of
sexual
union.11
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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!
(1
Corinthians
6:15)9
Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths. Many are the victims she has brought down; her slain
are a mighty throng.
(Proverbs 7:25-26)10
Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute
is one with her in body? For it is said, "The two will become
one flesh." But he who unites himself with the Lord
is one with him in spirit.
(1 Corinthians 6:16-17)11
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Homosexuality:
Homosexuality
(whether
male12
or
female13)
is also
condemned
by God.
Such
actions
are
referred
to as
"detestable"14
and the
people
who
engage
in them
as
"wicked."15
The
apostle
Paul
states
that men
who
commit
such
indecent
acts
"received
in
themselves
the due
penalty
for
their
perversion."16
Most
importantly,
homosexual
behavior,
if
willful
and
unrepentant,
may
seriously
call
into
question
one's
eternal
salvation."15
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In
the
same
way
the
men
also
abandoned
natural
relations
with
women
and
were
inflamed
with
lust
for
one
another.
(Romans
1:27)12
Because
of this,
God gave
them
over to
shameful
lusts.
Even
their
women
exchanged
natural
relations
for
unnatural
ones.
(Romans
1:26)13
Do not
lie with
a man as
one lies
with a
woman;
that is
detestable.
(Leviticus
18:22)14
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
homo-
sexual
offenders
nor
thieves
nor
the
greedy
nor
drunkards
nor
slanderers
nor
swindlers
will
inherit
the
kingdom
of
God.
(1
Corinthians
6:9-10)15
Men
committed
indecent
acts
with
other
men, and
received
in
themselves
the due
penalty
for
their
perversion.
(Romans
1:27)16
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Other
Perversions:
In
addition
to
homosexuality,
other
forms of
sexual
perversion16
and
sexual
sin are
also
condemned
in the
Bible,including:
cross-dressing17
(a man
wearing
women's
clothing,
or a
woman
wearing
men's
clothing);
beastiality18,19
(having
sexual
rela-tions
with an
animal);
and sex
with
close
relatives
(incest).20
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A
woman
must
not
wear
men's
clothing,
nor
a
man
wear
women's
clothing,
for
the
LORD
your
God
detests
anyone
who
does
this.
(Deuteronomy 22:5)17
"Cursed
is
the
man
who
has
sexual
relations
with
any
animal."
(Deuteronomy 27:21)18
A
woman
must
not
present
herself
to
an
animal
to
have
sexual
relations with it; that is a perversion.
(Leviticus 18:23)19
"No
one
is
to
approach
any
close
relative
to
have
sexual
relations.
I am the LORD."
(Leviticus 18:6)20
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Pornography:
Although the
term
"pornography"
is not
mentioned in
Scriptures,
the Bible
clearly
indicates
that we are
to control
our eyes,21
and not look
lustfully
upon others.22,23
Jesus
commented
that if you
look
lustfully
upon a
woman, you
have already
committed
adultery
with her.24
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I made a
covenant
with my
eyes
not to
look
lustfully
at a
girl.
(Job
31:1)21
Put to
death,
therefore,
whatever
belongs
to your
earthly
nature:
sexual
immorality,
impurity,
lust,
evil
desires
and
greed,
which is
idolatry.
(Colossians
3:5)22
Do not
lust in
your
heart
after
her
beauty
or let
her
captivate
you with
her
eyes,
for the
prostitute
reduces
you to a
loaf of
bread,
and the
adulteress
preys
upon
your
very
life.
(Proverbs
6:25-26)23
But
I
tell
you
that
anyone
who
looks
at a
woman
lustfully
has
already
committed
adultery
with
her
in
his
heart.
(Matthew
5:28)24
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Pedophilia:
Finally,
although
the
sexual
disorder
called
"pedo-philia"
(having
sex with
young
children)
is not
specifically
men-tioned
in the
Bible,
Jesus
Christ
spoke
indirectly
to this
topic.
Jesus
loved
young
children,
and was
especially
protective
of them.
Jesus
proclaimed:
But if
anyone
causes one
of these
little ones
who believe
in me to
sin, it
would be
better for
him to have
a large
millstone
hung
around
his
neck
and
to
be
drowned
in
the
depths
of
the
sea.
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God's
Guidance
The
Bible
tells us
that the
body was
not
meant
for
sexual
immo-rality,
but for
the
Lord.26
Our
bodies
were
bought
for a
price,27
and that
price
was the
sacrificial
death of
Jesus
Christ,
who died
for our
salvation.
Our
bodies
are a
temple
of the
Holy
Spirit,
and we
are to
honor
God with
our
bodies27
and live
holy
lives.28
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The body
is not
meant
for
sexual
immorality,
but
for
the
Lord
and
the
Lord
for
the
body.
(1
Corinthians
6:13)26
Do you
not know
that
your
body is
a temple
of the
Holy
Spirit,
who
is
in
you,
whom
you
have
received
from
God?
You
are
not
your
own;
you
were
bought
at a
price.
Therefore
honor
God
with
your
body.
(1
Corinthians
6:19-20)27
For God
did not
call us
to be
impure,
but to
live a
holy
life.
(1
Thessalonians
4:7)28
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We
are to
learn to
control
our
lusts
and
sexual
desires.29
We are
to flee
from all
sexual
immorality30
and put
to death
that
which
belongs
to our
sinful
nature.31
We are
to learn
to
control
our
bodies
in a way
that is
holy and
honorable.29
We are
to be
self-controlled
and live
such
pure
lives
that
there is
not even
a hint
of
sexual
im-morality
or
impurity.32
Those
who
belong
to Jesus
Christ
have
crucified
the
sinful
nature
with its
passions
and
desires.33
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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.
(1
Thessalonians
4:3-5)29
Flee
from
sexual
immorality.
All
other
sins
a
man
commits
are outside his body, but he who sins sexually
sins against his own body.
(1 Corinthians 6:18)30
For
if
you
live
according
to
the
sinful
nature,
you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death
the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
(Romans 8:13)31
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)32
Those
who
belong
to
Christ
Jesus
have
crucified
the sinful nature with its passions and desires.
(Galatians 5:24)33
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We are
to teach
young
people
to be
self-controlled,34
and we
our-selves
are to
flee the
evil
desires
of our
youth.35
As we
mature
in
Christ,
we are
to
pursue
righteousness.35
The
Bible
reminds
us that
we
cannot
hide our
sexual
sin from
God; a
man's
ways are
in full
view of
the
Lord.36
Even our
sinful
thoughts
are
known to
God.37
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Encourage
the
young
men
to
be
self-controlled.
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
Timothy
2:22)35
For a
man's
ways are
in full
view of
the
LORD,
and
he
examines
all
his
paths.
(Proverbs
5:21)36
The LORD
detests
the
thoughts
of the
wicked,
but
those
of
the
pure
are
pleasing
to
him.
(Proverbs
15:26)37
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If you
are
caught
in
sexual
sin, you
are to
repent
and turn
back to
the
Lord.38
You are
to come
to your
senses,
and stop
sinning.39
If you
sincerely
repent,
and ask
for
forgiveness,
God will
forgive
your
sins and
cleanse
you from
all
iniquity.40
However,
if you
deliberately
and
willfully
keep on
sinning,
after
you have
received
knowledge
of the
truth,
Christ's
sacrifice
for your
sins no
longer
applies,
and you
are in
danger
of God's
judgment
and
eternity
in hell.41
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Repent,
then,
and turn
to God,
so that
your
sins may
be wiped
out.
(Acts
3:19-20)38
Come
back to
your
senses
as you
ought,
and
stop
sinning.
(1
Corinthians
15:34)39
Wash
away all
my
iniquity
and
cleanse
me from
my sin.
(Psalm
51:2)40
If we
deliberately
keep on
sinning
after we
have
received
the
knowledge
of
the
truth,
no
sacrifice
for
sins
is
left,
but
only
a
fearful
expectation
of
judgment
and
of
raging
fire
that
will
consume
the
enemies
of
God.
(Hebrews
10:26-27)41
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