Lev 18:6-23, 30, Jer 44:4, Mat 15:18-20, Mar 7:10-23, 1Cor 3:17 | ESV | STEP | None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness . I am the Lord .

6 “None of you shall approach any one of his close relatives to uncover nakedness. I am the Lord. 7 ^aYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, which is the nakedness of your mother; she is your mother, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 8 ^bYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness. 9 ^cYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your sister, your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether brought up in the family or in another home. 10 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son’s daughter or of your daughter’s daughter, for their nakedness is your own nakedness. 11 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, brought up in your father’s family, since she is your sister. 12 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s relative. 13 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s relative. 14 You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother, that is, you shall not approach his wife; she is your aunt. 15 ^dYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law; she is your son’s wife, you shall not uncover her nakedness. 16 ^eYou shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is your brother’s nakedness. 17 You shall not uncover the nakedness of a woman and of her daughter, and you shall not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover her nakedness; they are relatives; it is depravity. 18 And you shall not take a woman as a ^frival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness ^gwhile her sister is still alive.

19 ^h“You shall not approach a woman to uncover her nakedness while she is in her menstrual uncleanness. 20 ⁱAnd you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her. 21 You shall not give any of your children to ^joffer them ^{▼▼Hebrew to make them pass through [the fire]} to ^lMolech, and so ^mprofane the name of your God: I am the Lord. 22 ⁿYou shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. 23 ^oAnd you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is ^pperversion.

Leviticus 18:30

30 ^qSo keep my charge never to practice ^rany of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: ^sI am the Lord your God.”

Jeremiah 44:4

4 ^tYet I persistently sent to you all my servants the prophets, saying, ‘Oh, do not do this abomination that I hate!’

Matthew 15:18-20

18 But ^uwhat comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. 19 For out of the heart come ^vevil thoughts, ^wmurder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, ^xslander. 20 ^yThese are what defile a person. But ^zto eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Mark 7:10-23

10 For Moses said, ^aa‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ^ab‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11 But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God) ^{▼▼Or an offering}— 12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13 thus ^admaking void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

What Defiles a Person

14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, ^ae“Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 ^afThere is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.” ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add verse 16: If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear} 17 And when he had entered ^ahthe house and left the people, ^aihis disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “Then ^ajare you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart ^akbut his stomach, and is expelled?” ^{▼▼Greek goes out into the latrine} ( ^amThus he declared all foods clean.) 20 And he said, ^an“What comes out of a person is what defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, ^aomurder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, ^apsensuality, ^aqenvy, ^arslander, ^aspride, ^atfoolishness. 23 ^auAll these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

1 Corinthians 3:17

17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For ^avGod’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.