Bible Dictionary: Immorality

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.

2. (n.) An immoral act or practice.

Greek

4203. porneuo -- to commit fornication
... Cognate: 4203 -- commit fornication (sexual immorality); (figuratively) to be
unfaithful to Christ, while as His true follower. See 4202 (). ...
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3436. molusmos -- defilement
... filthiness, immorality. From moluno; a stain; ie (figuratively) immorality --
filthiness. see GREEK moluno. (molusmou) -- 1 Occurrence. 3435, 3436. ...
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1608. ekporneuo -- mid. to give oneself up to fornication
... Word Origin from ek and porneuo Definition mid. to give oneself up to fornication
NASB Word Usage gross immorality (1), indulged in gross immorality (1). ...
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4202. porneia -- fornication
... Word Origin from porneuo Definition fornication NASB Word Usage fornication (4),
fornications (2), immoralities (1), immorality (16), sexual immorality (1 ...
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4205. pornos -- a fornicator
... 4205 (from , "to sell off") -- properly, a male prostitute. 4205 () is ", 'a male
prostitute' (so Xen., etc.); , " ie anyone engaging in sexual immorality. ...
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2970. komos -- a village festival, revel
... that took place at the gathering of the grapes, Souter) -- a riotous party (drunken
feast) which hosted unbridled sexual immorality; hence, (debauched "partying ...
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Topical Bible Verses

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.
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Ephesians 5:3-5
But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints;
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1 Corinthians 6:13
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.
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2 Corinthians 12:21
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
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1 Peter 2:11
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:
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Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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Matthew 19:9
And I say to you, Whoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and whoever marries her which is put away does commit adultery.
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1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
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Revelation 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loves and makes a lie.
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Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
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Mark 7:20-23
And he said, That which comes out of the man, that defiles the man.
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Strong's Hebrew

2154. zimmah -- a plan, device, wickedness
... Origin from zamam Definition a plan, device, wickedness NASB Word Usage acts of
lewdness (1), crime (1), devising (1), evil intent (1), immorality (2), lewd (3 ...
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Library

Idolatry Led to all Immorality.
... Book IV. Chapter XXXI."Idolatry Led to All Immorality. "For whereas at first,
men worshipping a righteous and all-seeing God, neither ...
/.../unknown/recognitions of clement /chapter xxxi idolatry led to all.htm

That the Roman Gods Never Took any Steps to Prevent the Republic ...
... Book II. Chapter 22."That the Roman Gods Never Took Any Steps to Prevent
the Republic from Being Ruined by Immorality. But what ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/city of god/chapter 22 that the roman gods.htm

Indignant Irony Exposing the Valentinian Fable About the Judicial ...
... Chapter XXXII."Indignant Irony Exposing the Valentinian Fable About the Judicial
Treatment of Mankind at the Last Judgment. The Immorality of the Doctrine. ...
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Simon Interprets his System by the Mythological Representation of ...
... Interprets His System by the Mythological Representation of Helen of Troy; Gives
an Account of Himself in Connection with the Trojan Heroine; Immorality of His ...
/.../the refutation of all heresies/chapter xiv simon interprets his system.htm

Crimes of the Manichæans.
... are always to be persecuted, even to the end of the world, there will be no end
to this laxity, and to the unchecked spread of all this immorality, from your ...
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The Epistle of Judas
... persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious
creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our ...
/.../moffat/the general epistles james peter and judas/the epistle of judas.htm

The Analogy Between the Two Advents of Christ.
... The utter failure of Pagan religion from its immorality, and of pagan philosophy
from its impotency to cure that immorality and the misery which accompanied it ...
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Jew and Gentile
... evil practices. The Jewish Christians could not tolerate the immorality
that was not even regarded as criminal by the heathen. The ...
/.../white/the acts of the apostles/lesson 19 jew and gentile.htm

The Carrion and the Vultures
... Look around us"drunkenness, sensual immorality, commercial dishonesty, senseless
luxury amongst the rich, heartless indifference to the wail of the poor ...
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The Royal Jubilee
... Think of the nameless scandals, the hideous immorality of the reigns that preceded
hers, and you will not wonder that every decent man and every modest woman ...
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Thesaurus

Immorality (38 Occurrences)
... Multi-Version Concordance Immorality (38 Occurrences). ... John 8:41 You do the works
of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. ...
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Adulteries (10 Occurrences)
... angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations
to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality." (See NIV). ...
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Sexual (59 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause
of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when ...
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Unchastity (5 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause
of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when ...
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Idols (186 Occurrences)
... Acts 15:20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols,
from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood. ...
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Commit (142 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause
of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when ...
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Drunk (84 Occurrences)
... Revelation 17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and
those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual ...
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Commits (39 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause
of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when ...
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Committed (201 Occurrences)
... (KJV WBS NIV). 1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some
of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. ...
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Adultery (49 Occurrences)
... Matthew 5:32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause
of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when ...
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Bible Concordance

Immorality (38 Occurrences)

Matthew 5:32 but I tell you that whoever puts away his wife, except for the cause of sexual immorality, makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries her when she is put away commits adultery.
(WEB)

Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.
(See NIV)

Matthew 19:9 I tell you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and he who marries her when she is divorced commits adultery."
(WEB NAS)

Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,
(See NIV)

John 8:41 You do the works of your father." They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
(WEB)

Acts 15:20 but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
(WEB NIV)

Acts 15:29 that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
(WEB NIV)

Acts 21:25 But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality."
(WEB NIV)

Romans 1:29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
(WEB)

Romans 13:13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
(See NIV)

1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 5:11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.
(See RSV)

1 Corinthians 6:13 "Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods," but God will bring to nothing both it and them. But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 7:2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
(See RSV NIV)

1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell.
(WEB RSV NIV)

2 Corinthians 12:21 that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
(WEB NAS RSV)

Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
(WEB NAS NIV)

Ephesians 5:3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
(WEB NAS NIV)

Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
(WEB NAS NIV)

1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
(WEB NAS NIV)

2 Peter 2:18 For, while they pour out their frivolous and arrogant talk, they use earthly cravings--every kind of immorality--as a bait to entrap men who are just escaping from the influence of those who live in error.
(WEY)

Jude 1:4 For certain persons have crept in unnoticed--men spoken of in ancient writings as pre-destined to this condemnation--ungodly men, who pervert the grace of our God into an excuse for immorality, and disown Jesus Christ, our only Sovereign and Lord.
(WEY NIV)

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
(WEB NAS NIV)

Revelation 2:14 But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 2:20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 2:21 I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 9:21 They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Revelation 14:8 Another, a second angel, followed, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, which has made all the nations to drink of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality."
(WEB NAS)

Revelation 17:2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality."
(WEB NAS)

Revelation 17:4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth.
(WEB NAS)

Revelation 18:3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
(WEB NAS)

Revelation 18:9 The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
(WEB NAS)

Revelation 19:2 for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has judged the great prostitute, who corrupted the earth with her sexual immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his servants at her hand."
(WEB NAS)

Leviticus 20:14 "'If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
(See NAS)

Numbers 25:1 Israel abode in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 3:9 So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:26 You have also committed sexual immorality with the Egyptians, your neighbors, great of flesh; and have multiplied your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
(WEB)

Subtopics

Immorality

Pornography

Related Terms

Adulteries (10 Occurrences)

Sexual (59 Occurrences)

Unchastity (5 Occurrences)

Idols (186 Occurrences)

Commit (142 Occurrences)

Drunk (84 Occurrences)

Commits (39 Occurrences)

Committed (201 Occurrences)