Leviticus 18:22

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You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:13 : 13 And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.
  • Rom 1:26-27 : 26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: 27 And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,
  • 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,
  • Jude 1:7 : 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
  • Judg 19:22 : 22 While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.
  • 1 Kgs 14:24 : 24 And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.
  • Deut 23:18 : 18 Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.
  • Gen 19:5 : 5 And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 18:23-24
    2 verses
    86%

    23 And you may not have sex relations with a beast, making yourself unclean with it; and a woman may not give herself to a beast: it is an unnatural act.

    24 Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

  • Lev 20:13-16
    4 verses
    84%

    13 And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

    14 And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.

    15 And if a man has sex relations with a beast, let him be put to death, and let the beast be put to destruction.

    16 And if a woman goes near a beast and has sex relations with it, you will put an end to the woman and the beast: their blood will be on them.

  • Lev 18:16-21
    6 verses
    82%

    16 You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.

    17 You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

    18 And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

    19 And you may not go near a woman or have sex relations with her when she is unclean, at her regular time.

    20 And you may not have sex relations with your neighbour's wife, making yourself unclean with her.

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • 19 Any man who has sex connection with a beast is to be put to death.

  • 5 It is not right for a woman to be dressed in man's clothing, or for a man to put on a woman's robe: whoever does such things is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Lev 18:26-27
    2 verses
    77%

    26 So then keep my rules and my decisions, and do not do any of these disgusting things, those of you who are Israelites by birth, or any others who are living with you:

    27 (For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

  • 21 Cursed is he who has sex relations with any sort of beast. And let all the people say, So be it.

  • Lev 18:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29 For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

    30 So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.

  • 3 No disgusting thing may be your food.

  • 75%

    17 No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

    18 Do not take into the house of the Lord your God, as an offering for an oath, the price of a loose woman or the money given to one used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: for these two things are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Rom 1:26-27
    2 verses
    75%

    26 For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:

    27 And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

  • 12 For all who do such things are disgusting to the Lord; and because of these disgusting things the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

  • 16 For all who do such things, and all whose ways are not upright, are disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • 26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • 1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • 11 And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Lev 18:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 You may not have sex connection with anyone who is a near relation: I am the Lord.

    7 You may not have sex relations with your father or your mother: she is your mother, you may not take her.

  • Lev 19:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19 Keep my laws. Do not let your cattle have offspring by those of a different sort; do not put mixed seed into your field; do not put on a robe made of two sorts of cloth.

    20 If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.

  • 9 Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men,

  • 9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Lev 20:10-11
    2 verses
    73%

    10 And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.

    11 And the man who has sex relations with his father's wife has put shame on his father: the two of them are to be put to death; their blood will be on them.

  • 22 If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.

  • 18 Do not be false to the married relation.

  • 18 And if a man has sex relations with a woman and his seed goes out from him, the two of them will have to be bathed in water and will be unclean till evening.

  • Deut 17:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 If word of this comes to your ears, then let this thing be looked into with care, and if there is no doubt that it is true, and such evil has been done in Israel;

    5 Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.

  • 30 A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

  • 10 For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,

  • 14 Do not be false to the married relation.

  • 18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • 18 And if a man has sex relations with a woman at the time when she is unwell, he has seen her fountain and she has let the fountain of her blood be uncovered, and the two of them are to be cut off from among their people.

  • 14 You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;

  • 43 You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me.

  • 11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.