Immorality and unfaithfulness are strongly condemned in Scripture, with warnings against engaging in illicit sexual relationships. The apostle Paul addresses this issue in 1 Corinthians, urging believers to flee from immorality and emphasizing the sacredness of marriage in Hebrews. In 1 Corinthians, Paul also confronts the church for tolerating incestuous relationships, highlighting the need for purity within the community. Those who persist in such sinful behaviors are warned of judgment, as seen in Revelation, and are reminded that they will not inherit the kingdom of God, as stated in 1 Corinthians.
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Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
It 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.
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
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,
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
Now I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits adultery. ”
In like manner, Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, who indulged in sexual immorality and pursued strange flesh, are on display as an example of those who sustain the punishment of eternal fire.
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 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 glorify God with your body.