Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning

So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink and got up to indulge in revelry.

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words …

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, …

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

For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. …

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. …

Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand: …

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, …

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, …

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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

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 men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

…nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! …

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

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

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. …

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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

…not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.

For 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.

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. …