The Bible teaches that human relationships, including those involving intimacy, are to be characterized by love, respect, and selflessness. In Hebrews 13:4, the importance of honoring marriage is emphasized, while Leviticus 18:22 and 1 Corinthians 6:9 clearly condemn immoral behavior. Jesus' teachings in Matthew 19:4 and Matthew 5:28 highlight the significance of faithfulness and purity, not just in actions, but also in thoughts and intentions. By upholding these principles, believers are called to live out their relationships in a way that honors God and reflects His love.
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Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Jesus answered, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’
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,
If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
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, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
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.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. Likewise, the men abandoned natural relations with women and burned with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
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.