What does the Bible say about gay?

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Rankings: OpenBible.info Topical Bible (CC BY) · Scripture: World English Bible

• Leviticus 18:22 12 votes

  "'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestible.

• 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 8 votes

  [9] Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, [10] nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God. [11] Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.

• Mark 10:6-9 7 votes

  [6] But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female. [7] For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, [8] and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. [9] What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

• Leviticus 20:13 7 votes

  If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

• Matthew 19:4-6 5 votes

  [4] He answered, "Haven't you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, [5] and said, 'For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall join to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?' [6] So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don't let man tear apart."

• 1 Timothy 1:9-10 4 votes

  [9] as knowing this, that law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, [10] for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

• Romans 1:26-27 4 votes

  [26] For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. [27] Likewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.

• Hebrews 13:4 4 votes

  Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

• 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 3 votes

  [9] Or don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, [10] nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.

• Jude 1:7 3 votes

  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.

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