1 Corinthians 5:1

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It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and a kind of immorality that is not even found among the Gentiles—a man is sleeping with his father’s wife.

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  • Lev 18:8 : 8 Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.
  • Rev 21:8 : 8 But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the detestable, murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.
  • Acts 15:20 : 20 Instead, we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, sexual immorality, meat that has been strangled, and blood.
  • Acts 15:29 : 29 that you abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from what is strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
  • 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 I fear that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will grieve over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they have practiced.
  • Gal 5:19 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,
  • Eph 5:3 : 3 But sexual immorality, all impurity, or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
  • 1 Thess 4:7 : 7 For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness.
  • Rev 2:21 : 21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.
  • 1 Cor 5:11 : 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person, do not even eat.
  • 1 Cor 6:9 : 9 Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice homosexuality,
  • 1 Cor 6:13 : 13 Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both one and the other. The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  • 1 Cor 6:18 : 18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside the body, but the one who sins sexually sins against their own body.
  • Deut 27:20 : 20 Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he has dishonored his father's bed. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
  • 1 Sam 2:24 : 24 ‘No, my sons; the report I hear spreading among the LORD’s people is not good.’
  • 2 Sam 16:22 : 22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
  • 2 Sam 20:3 : 3 When David returned to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the ten concubines he had left to take care of the house and placed them in confinement, providing for them but no longer going to them. They remained confined like widows until the day of their death.
  • 1 Chr 5:1 : 1 The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel—although he was the firstborn, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel, because he defiled his father’s bed. He is not counted as the firstborn in the records.
  • Jer 2:33 : 33 How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women you have taught your ways.
  • Ezek 16:47 : 47 You not only followed their ways and acted according to their detestable practices but in a very short time, you became more depraved than they were in all your ways.
  • Ezek 16:51-52 : 51 Samaria did not sin as much as you did. You multiplied your abominations more than they did, and your actions have justified your sisters in comparison to all your abominations. 52 Now bear your disgrace as you have judged your sisters. Because your sins were more abominable than theirs, they appear more righteous than you. So, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you have justified your sisters.
  • Ezek 22:10 : 10 In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.
  • Amos 2:7 : 7 'They trample on the dust of the earth on the heads of the poor and obstruct the way of the afflicted. A man and his father go to the same girl, so that they profane My holy name.'
  • 2 Cor 7:12 : 12 So even though I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the one who did the wrong or for the sake of the one who was wronged, but to reveal to you, in the sight of God, your earnestness on our behalf.
  • Lev 20:11 : 11 If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
  • Gen 35:22 : 22 While Israel was living in that region, Reuben went and slept with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Israel heard about it. Now Jacob had twelve sons:
  • Gen 37:2 : 2 This is the account of Jacob: Joseph, a seventeen-year-old youth, was shepherding the flock with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought a bad report about them to their father.
  • Gen 49:4 : 4 'Unstable as water, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father's bed; you defiled it—he went up onto my couch.'
  • 1 Cor 1:11 : 11 For it has been reported to me about you, my brothers and sisters, by those of Chloe’s household, that there are quarrels among you.

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  • 1 Cor 5:2-3
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    2And you are proud! Shouldn't you rather have mourned so that the one who has done this would be removed from among you?

    3For though I am absent in body, I am present in spirit, and I have already passed judgment on the one who has committed this act, as if I were present.

  • 1 Cor 5:9-12
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    9I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

    10I did not at all mean the sexually immoral people of this world, or the greedy, or swindlers, or idolaters. In that case, you would have to leave the world.

    11But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person, do not even eat.

    12What business is it of mine to judge outsiders? Are you not to judge those inside the church?

  • Eph 5:3
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    3But sexual immorality, all impurity, or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper for saints.

  • Gal 5:19
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    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

  • Ezek 22:10-11
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    10In you, they have dishonored their fathers' nakedness; they have violated women during their impurity.

    11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife, another defiles his daughter-in-law with wickedness, and another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

  • Lev 18:7-8
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    7Do not dishonor your father by uncovering your mother’s nakedness. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

    8Do not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; that would dishonor your father.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ himself? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never!

    16Or do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one body with her? For it is said, "The two will become one flesh."

  • 1 Cor 6:18
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    18Flee from sexual immorality. Every sin a person commits is outside the body, but the one who sins sexually sins against their own body.

  • Eph 5:5
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    5For you know this with certainty, that no sexually immoral, impure, or greedy person—who is an idolater—has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

  • Lev 20:11
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    11If a man sleeps with his father's wife, he has uncovered his father's nakedness. Both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

  • Num 5:12-13
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    12Speak to the Israelites: If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him,

    13and another man has sexual relations with her secretly, and it is hidden from her husband, and she is not caught but has become defiled, even though there is no witness against her,

  • Lev 18:11-12
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    11Do not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

    12Do not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

  • 1 Thess 4:3-5
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    3For this is God’s will: your sanctification—that you abstain from sexual immorality.

    4That each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

    5not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • 2 Cor 12:21
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    21I fear that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will grieve over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they have practiced.

  • 1 Tim 1:10
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    10the sexually immoral, those who practice homosexuality, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,

  • Heb 13:4
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    4Marriage is to be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

  • 1 Cor 7:5
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    5Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • Num 5:20
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    20But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and defiled yourself, and if a man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you—

  • Deut 27:20
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    20Cursed is anyone who sleeps with his father's wife, for he has dishonored his father's bed. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Lev 18:14-17
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    14Do not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations; she is your aunt.

    15Do not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you must not uncover her nakedness.

    16Do not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would dishonor your brother.

    17Do not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. Do not take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter to uncover their nakedness; they are her close relatives. That is wickedness.

  • 1 Cor 6:8-9
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    8Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat—and you do this to your brothers and sisters.

    9Don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who practice homosexuality,

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • 1 Cor 7:2
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    2But because of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

  • Matt 5:27
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    27You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’

  • Col 3:5
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    5Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

  • 1 Cor 6:5
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    5I say this to your shame. Is there not one wise person among you who is able to judge between fellow believers?

  • 1 Tim 5:11
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    11But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their physical desires draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry,

  • Titus 1:6
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    6An elder must be blameless, the husband of one wife, with faithful children who are not accused of wild living or rebellion.

  • 1 Cor 5:6
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    6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough?

  • 1 Tim 5:1
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    1Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but appeal to him as you would to a father. Treat younger men as brothers,

  • Lev 18:20
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    20Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.

  • Lev 20:19
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    19You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister or your father's sister, for this would dishonor a close relative. They shall bear their iniquity.

  • Lev 20:14
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    14If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depravity. He and they must be burned with fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

  • Gen 19:31
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    31The older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to marry us in the customary way of the entire earth.