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Bible Verses About Sodomy

23 verses · 1 aspect

Key Bible Verses

  1. They called Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to stay with you tonight? Bring them out to us! We want to have sex with them!"

  2. Lot went out to them and stood in the doorway, closing the door behind him,

  3. and said, "Please, my brothers, don't do such a wicked thing.

  4. Look here, I have two daughters who are virgins. Please, let me bring them out to you, and you can do with them what seems good to you; but don't do anything to these men, since they are guests in my house."

  5. "Whoever has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death.

  6. "'You are not to go to bed with a man as with a woman; it is an abomination.

  7. "'You are not to have sexual relations with any kind of animal and thus become unclean with it; nor is any woman to present herself to an animal to have sexual relations with it; it is perversion.

  8. If a man goes to bed with a man as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they must be put to death; their blood is on them.

  9. If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he must be put to death, and you are to kill the animal.

  10. If a woman approaches an animal and has sexual relations with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal; their blood will be on them.

  11. "No woman of Isra'el is to engage in ritual prostitution, and no man of Isra'el is to engage in ritual homosexual prostitution.

  12. "'A curse on anyone who has sexual relations with any kind of animal.' All the people are to say, 'Amen!'

  13. They were relaxing, when suddenly some men from the city, good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and began beating at the door. "Send out the man who came home with you!" they demanded of the old man whose house it was. "We want to have sex with him!"

  14. Also there were male and female cult-prostitutes in the land attached to these shrines, doing all the disgusting things which the nations did that ADONAI had expelled ahead of the people of Isra'el.

  15. He rid the land of cult-prosti-tutes and removed all the idols his ancestors had made.

  16. He rid the land of the male and female cult-prostitutes remaining from the time of his father Asa.

  17. He smashed the houses of the cult prostitutes that were in the house of ADONAI, where the women also wove garments for the asherah.

  18. This is why God has given them up to the vileness of their hearts’ lusts, to the shameful misuse of each other’s bodies.

  19. This is why God has given them up to degrading passions; so that their women exchange natural sexual relations for unnatural;

  20. and likewise the men, giving up natural relations with the opposite sex, burn with passion for one another, men committing shameful acts with other men and receiving in their own persons the penalty appropriate to their perversion.

  21. Don’t you know that unrighteous people will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don’t delude yourselves — people who engage in sex before marriage, who worship idols, who engage in sex after marriage with someone other than their spouse, who engage in active or passive homosexuality,

  22. We are aware that Torah is not for a person who is righteous, but for those who are heedless of Torah and rebellious, ungodly and sinful, wicked and worldly, for people who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers,

  23. the sexually immoral — both heterosexual and homosexual — slave dealers, liars, perjurers, and anyone who acts contrary to the sound teaching