(NIV)
About three months later Judah was told, ‘Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant.’
Judah said, ‘Bring her out and let her be burned to death!’
About three months later
Judah was
told, “
Tamar your
daughter-in-law has been
immoral.
Moreover, she is
pregnant by
immorality.” And
Judah said, “
Bring her out, and let her be
burned.”
(NIV)
While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with Moabite women,
While
Israel lived in
Shittim,
the
people began to
whore with the
daughters of
Moab.
(NIV)
Because Israel’s immorality mattered so little to her, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stone and wood.
Because she took her
whoredom lightly, she
polluted the
land, committing
adultery with
stone and
tree.
(NIV)
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, makes her the victim of adultery, and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
(ESV)
But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
(NIV)
For out of the heart come evil thoughts – murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
(ESV)
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
(NIV)
I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery.’
(ESV)
And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
(NIV)
For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come – sexual immorality, theft, murder,
(ESV)
For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
(NIV)
You are doing the works of your own father.’ ‘We are not illegitimate children,’ they protested. ‘The only Father we have is God himself.’
(ESV)
You are doing the works your father did.” They
said to
him,
“
We were
not born of sexual immorality. We
have one Father—even
God.”
(NIV)
Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood.
but should
write to
them to
abstain from the
things polluted by
idols,
and from
sexual immorality,
and from what has been
strangled,
and from
blood.
(NIV)
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
that you
abstain from what has been sacrificed to
idols,
and from
blood,
and from what has been
strangled,
and from
sexual immorality. If you
keep yourselves from these, you will
do well.
Farewell.”
(NIV)
As for the Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they should abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.’
But
as for the
Gentiles who have
believed,
we have sent a
letter with our
judgment that
they should
abstain from what has been sacrificed to
idols,
and from
blood,
and from what has been
strangled,
and from
sexual immorality.”
(NIV)
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Let us
walk properly as in the
daytime,
not in
orgies and drunkenness,
not in
sexual immorality and sensuality,
not in
quarreling and jealousy.
(NIV)
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.
It is
actually reported that there is
sexual immorality among you,
and of a
kind that is
not tolerated even
among pagans,
for a
man has his
father’s wife.
(NIV)
But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.
But now I am
writing to
you not to
associate with
anyone who bears the
name of
brother if he
is guilty of sexual
immorality or greed,
or is an
idolater,
reviler,
drunkard,
or swindler—not
even to
eat with such a
one.
(NIV)
You say, ‘Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.’ The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
“
Food is meant for the
stomach and the
stomach for
food”—
and God will
destroy both one and the other. The
body is
not meant for
sexual immorality,
but for the
Lord,
and the
Lord for the
body.
(NIV)
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.
Flee from
sexual immorality.
Every other sin a
person commits is outside the
body,
but the sexually
immoral person sins against his
own body.
(NIV)
But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
But because of the temptation to
sexual immorality,
each man should
have his
own wife and each woman her
own husband.
(NIV)
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did – and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
We must
not indulge in
sexual immorality as some of
them did,
and twenty-three thousand fell in a
single day.
(NIV)
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 the impurity, sexual sin and debauchery in which they have indulged.
I fear
that when I
come again my God may
humble me before you,
and I may have to
mourn over
many of those
who sinned earlier and have
not repented of the
impurity,
sexual immorality,
and sensuality that they have
practiced.
(NIV)
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
Now the
works of the
flesh are evident:
sexual immorality,
impurity,
sensuality,
(NIV)
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.
But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not
even be
named among you,
as is
proper among
saints.
(NIV)
Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.
Put to
death therefore what is
earthly in you: sexual
immorality,
impurity,
passion,
evil desire,
and covetousness,
which is idolatry.
(NIV)
It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;
For this is the
will of
God,
your sanctification: that
you abstain from sexual immorality;
(NIV)
For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a licence for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
For certain people have
crept in unnoticed
who long ago were
designated for this condemnation,
ungodly people, who
pervert the
grace of
our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord,
Jesus Christ.
(NIV)
In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.
just
as Sodom and Gomorrah and the
surrounding cities,
which likewise indulged in
sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire,
serve as an
example by
undergoing a
punishment of
eternal fire.
(NIV)
Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: there are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality.
(ESV)
But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.
(NIV)
Nevertheless, I have this against you: you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophet. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols.
(ESV)
But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
(NIV)
I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.
(ESV)
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
(NIV)
Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic arts, their sexual immorality or their thefts.
nor did they
repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
(NIV)
A second angel followed and said, ‘“Fallen! Fallen is Babylon the Great,” which made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her adulteries.’
Another angel, a
second,
followed,
saying,
“
Fallen,
fallen is
Babylon the
great,
she
who made
all nations drink the
wine of the
passion of
her sexual immorality.”
(NIV)
With her the kings of the earth committed adultery, and the inhabitants of the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her adulteries.’
with whom the
kings of the
earth have committed sexual
immorality,
and with the
wine of
whose sexual immorality the
dwellers on
earth have become
drunk.”
(NIV)
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things and the filth of her adulteries.
The
woman was arrayed in
purple and scarlet,
and adorned with
gold and jewels and pearls,
holding in her hand a
golden cup full of
abominations and the
impurities of
her sexual immorality.
(NIV)
For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,
and the merchants of the earth grew rich from her excessive luxuries.’
For all nations have
drunk the
wine of the
passion of
her sexual immorality,
and the
kings of the
earth have committed
immorality with her,
and the
merchants of the
earth have grown
rich from the
power of
her luxurious living.”
(NIV)
‘When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her and shared her luxury see the smoke of her burning, they will weep and mourn over her.
And the
kings of the
earth,
who committed sexual
immorality and lived in
luxury with her,
will
weep and wail over her when they
see the
smoke of
her burning.
(NIV)
for true and just are his judgments.
He has condemned the great prostitute
who corrupted the earth by her adulteries.
He has avenged on her the blood of his servants.’
for his judgments are
true and just;
for he has
judged the
great prostitutewho corrupted the
earth with her immorality,
and has
avenged on her the
blood of
his servants.”
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