53 verses contain “sexual” (in the KJV: 0, in the BSB: 53) — showing 1–53
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None of you shall approach to any that is near of
kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.
The nakedness of thy father, or the nakedness of thy mother, shalt thou not uncover: she is thy mother; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
You must not
expose the nakedness of your father by having
sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have
sexual relations with her.
The nakedness of thy father’s wife shalt thou not uncover: it is thy father’s nakedness.
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father.
The nakedness of thy sister, the daughter of thy father, or daughter of thy mother, whether she be born at home, or born abroad, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover.
You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.
The nakedness of thy son’s daughter, or of thy daughter’s daughter, even their nakedness thou shalt not uncover: for theirs is thine own nakedness.
You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.
The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter,
begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near
kinswoman.
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near
kinswoman.
You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine
aunt.
You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have
sexual relations with her; she is your
aunt.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy daughter in law: she is thy son’s wife; thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.
You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother.
Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near
kinswomen: it is wickedness.
You must not have
sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have
sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is
depraved.
Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister, to
vex her, to uncover her nakedness, beside the other in her life time.
You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive.
Also thou shalt not approach unto a woman to uncover her nakedness, as long as she is put apart for her uncleanness.
You must not approach a woman to have
sexual relations with her during her
menstrual period.
And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.
If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations, it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.
If a man lies with a
menstruating woman and has
sexual relations with her, he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.
And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near
kin: they shall bear their iniquity.
You must not have
sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is
exposing one’s own
kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
And Israel abode in
Shittim, and the people began to commit
whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
While Israel was staying in
Shittim, the men began to
indulge in
sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she
doted: with all their idols she
defiled herself.
She offered
sexual favors to all the
elite of Assyria. She
defiled herself with all the idols of those for whom she
lusted.
But I tell you that
anyone who divorces his wife, except for
sexual immorality, brings
adultery upon her. And he who marries a
divorced woman commits
adultery.
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder,
adultery,
sexual immorality,
theft, false testimony, and
slander.
Now I tell you that
whoever divorces his wife, except for
sexual immorality, and marries another woman, commits
adultery.”
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders,
For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts,
sexual immorality,
theft, murder,
adultery,
But that we write unto them, that they
abstain from pollutions of idols, and from
fornication, and from things
strangled, and from blood.
Instead, we should write and tell them to
abstain from food
polluted by idols, from
sexual immorality, from the meat of
strangled animals, and from blood.
You must
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.
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from
strangled, and from
fornication.
As for the
Gentile believers, we have written to them our decision that they must
abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of
strangled animals, and from
sexual immorality.”
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.
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.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:
I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the
covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
I was not including the
sexually immoral of this world, or the
greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world.
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not
inherit the kingdom of God? Be not
deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
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,
Meats for the
belly, and the
belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for
fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
“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.
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth
fornication sinneth against his own body.
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.
Now concerning the things
whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Now for the matters you wrote about: It is good to
abstain from
sexual relations.
Nevertheless, to avoid
fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Neither let us commit
fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died.
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;
But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a
hint of
sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of
greed.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature:
sexual immorality, impurity,
lust, evil desires, and
greed, which is
idolatry.
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must
abstain from
sexual immorality;
For whoremongers, for them that
defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for
perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;
for the
sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave traders and liars and perjurers, and for
anyone else who is
averse to sound teaching
See to it that no one is
sexually immoral, or is godless like
Esau, who for a single meal sold his
birthright.
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed
undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept
undefiled, for God will judge the
sexually immoral and adulterers.
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.
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.
But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of
Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit
fornication.
But I have a few things against you, because some of you hold to the teaching of
Balaam, who taught Balak to place a
stumbling block before the Israelites so they would eat food sacrificed to idols and commit
sexual immorality.
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.
But I have this against you: You
tolerate that woman
Jezebel, who calls herself a
prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be
sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
And the woman was
arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and
filthiness of her
fornication:
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
And the kings of the earth, who have committed
fornication and lived
deliciously with her, shall
bewail her, and
lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Then the kings of the earth who committed
sexual immorality and lived in
luxury with her will
weep and
wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the
abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and
brimstone: which is the second death.
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.”
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and
whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the
sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and
everyone who loves and practices
falsehood.