Sexual Lust
PORNOGRAPHY, ADULTERY, FORNICATION, AND HOMOSEXUALITY IS SIN
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. God’s grace and the New Testament allows for repentance, if a person truly trusts in Jesus Christ as their only hope of forgiveness.
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. However, if the unbelieving person departs from a believer, the believer is not under bondage in such cases. Below will be the scripture refrences for this statement.
ADULTERY—THOU SHALT NOT
Ex 20:14-THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY.
20:14 adultery. Applicable to both men and women, this command protected the sacredness of the marriage relationship. God had instituted marriage at the creation of man and woman (Gen. 2:24) and had blessed it as the means of filling the earth (Gen. 1:28). The penalty for infidelity in the marital relationship was death (Lev. 20:10). Adultery was also referred to as “a great sin” (Gen. 20:9) and a “great wickedness and sin against God” (cf. Gen. 39:9; Matt. 5:27; James 2:11).
Deut 5:18-NEITHER SHALT THOU COMMIT ADULTERY.
5:18 adultery. (Ex. 20:14; Matt. 5:27.)
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.
Rom. 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.
John MacArthur explains:
13:9 To demonstrate that love fulfills the law, Paul cites 4 of the Ten Commandments dealing with human relations and ties them in with an overarching OT command. He quotes Ex. 20:13–15, 17 (cf. Deut. 5:17–19, 21). summed up … love your neighbor as yourself. This command, quoting Lev. 19:18, encompasses all of God’s laws concerning human relationships (Matt. 22:39); if we truly love our neighbor (anyone with whom we have contact, cf. Luke 10:25–37), we will only do what is in his best interest (13:10).
If we as God’s children are loving our neighbor as God commands, then we will not commit adultery with them.
James 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.
John MacArthur explains:
5:19–21 These sins characterize all unredeemed mankind living under the impotent commands of the law which produces only iniquity, though not every person manifests all these sins nor exhibits them to the same degree. Paul’s list, which is not exhaustive, encompasses 3 areas of human life: sex, religion, and human relationships. For other such lists, see Rom. 1:24–32; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10.
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.
John MacArthur explains:
5:32 except sexual immorality. See 19:9. Divorce was allowed in cases of adultery. Luke 16:18 must be understood in the light of this verse. causes her to commit adultery. The assumption is that divorced people will remarry. If the divorce was not for sexual immorality any remarriage is adultery, because God does not acknowledge the divorce. For more on divorce, see 1 Cor. 7:15.
7:15 But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace.
7:15 let him depart. A term referring to divorce. When an unbelieving spouse cannot tolerate the partner’s faith and wants a divorce, it is best to let that happen in order to preserve peace in the family (Rom. 12:18). The bond of marriage is broken only by death (Rom. 7:2), adultery (Matt. 19:9), or an unbeliever’s leaving. not under bondage. When the bond is broken in any of those ways, a Christian is free to marry another believer. Throughout Scripture, whenever legitimate divorce occurs, remarriage is assumed. When divorce is permitted, so is remarriage. By implication, the permission for a widow to remarry (vv. 39, 40; Rom. 7:3) because the “bond” is broken, extends to this case where there is no more “bondage.”
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.
John MacArthur explains:
2:14 eyes full of adultery. The false teachers had so totally lost moral control that they could not look at any woman without seeing her as a potential adulteress (Matt. 5:28). They were uncontrollably driven by lust, never resting from their sins. enticing unstable souls. The metaphor is from fishing and appears also in v. 8. To beguile is to catch with bait. False teachers do not capture those strong in the Word, but prey on the weak, the unstable, and the young in the faith (see 3:16; cf. Eph. 4:14; 1 John 2:13). heart trained in covetous practices. The word “trained,” was often used for training in athletics. The false teachers have trained, prepared, and equipped their minds to concentrate on nothing but the forbidden things for which their passions lust. They are well schooled in the craft of self-fulfillment. accursed children. This is a Hebraism for the curse of sin being the dominant thing in their lives, thus saying that they are damned to hell for their blatant wickedness. Gal. 3:10,13; Eph. 2:1–3; 1 Pet. 1:14.
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.
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.
20:10–21 Here are the punishments for violating the prohibitions of sexual sins detailed in 18:1–30; see Deut. 22:13–30.
Prov. 6:32-BUT WHOSO COMMITTETH ADULTERY WITH A WOMAN LACKETH UNDERSTANDING: HE THAT DOETH IT DESTROYETH HIS OWN SOUL.
John MacArthur explains:
6:30–35 Adultery is compared to a thief. Unlike the pity extended to a starving thief, who, though it may cost all he has, can make restitution and put the crime behind him permanently (vv. 30, 31), for the adulterer there is no restitution as he destroys his soul (v. 32; cf. Deut. 22:22). If he lives, he is disgraced for life (v. 33) with a reproach which will never go away. The jealous husband will have no mercy on him either (vv. 34, 35; cf. 27:4; Song 8:6).
John 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.
John MacArthur explains:
2:22 sickbed. Lit. “bed.” Having given this woman time to repent, God was to judge her upon a bed. Since she used a luxurious bed to commit her immorality, and the reclining couch at the idol feast to eat things offered to false gods, He was to give her a bed in hell where she would lie forever.
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.)
A NATION COMMITTING (SPIRITUAL) ADULTERY AGAINST GOD
(ISRAEL OR JUDAH FORSAKING GOD; WORSHIPPING OTHER GODS)
Jer 3:8-9 “Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also. 9“So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees. 10“And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah has not turned to Me with her whole heart, but in pretense,” says the Lord.
John MacArthur explains:
3:8 I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce. Though God hates divorce (Mal. 2:16), it is tolerated for unrepentant adultery (see Matt. 5:32; 19:8,9), as indicated by this analogy of God’s divorcing Israel for that continual sin in the spiritual realm. God had divorced Israel but not yet Judah (cf. Is. 50:1). Ezra 10:3, where divorce is the right action of God’s people to separate from idolatrous wives.
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.
John MacArthur explains:
5:7 adultery. Often the idea of adultery is figurative for idolatry or political alliances (see 3:1), but the language here refers to physical adultery by men seeking out a harlot or going to neighbors’ wives (v. 8), thus violating the seventh commandment (Ex. 20:14).
Ezek 23:37-THAT THEY HAVE COMMITTED ADULTERY, AND BLOOD IS IN THEIR HANDS, AND WITH THEIR IDOLS HAVE THEY COMMITTED ADULTERY.
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.
John MacArthur explains:
4:13 Bereft of righteous teaching and understanding, they sacrificed to idols. Hilltops and groves of trees were favorite places for idolatrous worship (cf. Deut. 12:2; Jer. 2:20; Ezek. 6:13), including religious prostitution.
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.
John MacArthur explains:
4:14 Although all who sin will be judged, God forbade punishing the adulteresses alone and leaving the men who patronized them to go free. The heaviest punishment would not be on the women who sin, but also on the fathers and husbands who set such a bad example by their engagement with prostitutes.
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.
John MacArthur explains:
23:14 a horrible thing in the prophets. The false shepherds told lies, committed adultery, and declared vain dreams (vv. 25,27). They became like chaff rather than grain (v. 28), while promising peace (v. 17) to those whose sins provoke God to bring calamity, not comfort. The scene was like Sodom and Gomorrah, whose sin so grieved God that He destroyed them by fire (cf. Gen. 19:13,24,25).
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.
John MacArthur explains:
29:21–23 Ahab … and Zedekiah. Two captive, false Israelite prophets, who had been misleading exiles in Babylon (v. 15), will stir up the wrath of their captor king, who will cast them into a furnace (as in Dan. 3). They aroused not only the Babylonian potentate’s enmity, but God’s also, because of prophecies against His word and physical adultery (cf. 5:7).
Hos 4:2-BY SWEARING, AND LYING, AND KILLING, AND STEALING, AND COMMITTING ADULTERY, THEY BREAK OUT, AND BLOOD TOUCHETH BLOOD.
Rom. 2:22 THOU THAT SAYEST A MAN SHOULD NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, DOST THOU COMMIT ADULTERY?
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.
John MacArthur explains:
6:18 Every sin … is outside. There is a sense in which sexual sin destroys a person like no other, because it is so intimate and entangling, corrupting on the deepest human level. But Paul is probably alluding to venereal disease, prevalent and devastating in his day and today. No sin has greater potential to destroy the body, something a believer should avoid because of the reality given in vv. 19, 20.
1 Cor 10:8-NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION, AS SOME OF THEM COMMITTED, AND FELL IN ONE DAY THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND.
John MacArthur explains:
10:8 twenty-three thousand. Having just quoted from Ex. 32 in v. 7, this very likely also refers to the incident in Ex. 32, not to the incident at Shittim in Num. 25. Apparently 3,000 were killed by the Levites (Ex. 32:28) and 20,000 died in the plague (Ex. 32:35).
1 Thes 4:3-FOR THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, EVEN YOUR SANCTIFICATION, THAT YE SHOULD ABSTAIN FROM FORNICATION.
John MacArthur explains:
4:3 the will of God. All of God’s Word contains God’s will—both affirmations and prohibitions. Specifically, God’s will includes salvation (1 Tim. 2:4), self-sacrifice(Rom. 12:1,2), Spirit filling (Eph. 5:18), submission (1 Pet. 2:13–15), suffering (1 Pet. 3:17), satisfaction (5:18), settledness (Heb. 10:36), and particularly here—sanctification, which literally refers to a state of being set apart from sin to holiness. In this context, it means being set apart from sexual impurity in particular, holding oneself away from immorality by following the instruction in vv. 4–8.
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.
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.
FORNICATION ULTIMATELY LEADS TO HELL AND ETERNAL FIRE, JUST AS ANY SIN DOES
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.
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, coming to Him in Salvation.
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.
WHORES OR SODOMITES
Deut 23:17-THERE SHALL BE NO WHORE OF THE DAUGHTERS OF ISRAEL, NOR A SODOMITE OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Salvation is the beginning point to overcoming sexual sin. (
