What does the Bible say about homosexuality?
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The Bible teaches that same-sex sexual acts are contrary to God’s design for marriage and sexual holiness, yet Christ offers forgiveness, cleansing, and new life to all who repent and believe. Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 prohibit such acts within Israel’s moral law, while Romans 1:26-27 describes them as part of humanity’s fallen exchange of God’s truth for created desires. First Corinthians 6:9-11 and 1 Timothy 1:10 include sexual sin among behaviors incompatible with God’s kingdom, but also proclaim hope: “such were some of you,” and believers are washed and sanctified in Christ. Christians should therefore speak truthfully, humbly, and compassionately, recognizing that every person needs God’s mercy and is called to chastity, faith, and obedience.
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- Leviticus 18:22 6 votes
“‘You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. That is detestable.
- Leviticus 20:13 6 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 themselves.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 3 votes
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom. Some of you were such, but you were washed. You were sanctified. You were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
- Romans 1:26-27 3 votes
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. 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.
- 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 shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 3 votes
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 2 votes
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
- 1 Timothy 1:10 2 votes
for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,
- Romans 1:27 2 votes
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.
- Romans 1:26-28 2 votes
For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature. 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. Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
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