What does the Bible say about men sleep with men?

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• Leviticus 20:13 8 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.

• 1 Corinthians 6:9 5 votes

  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,

• Romans 1:26-27 5 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.

• Leviticus 18:22 4 votes

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

• Luke 17:34-35 2 votes

  [34] I tell you, in that night there will be two people in one bed. The one will be taken, and the other will be left. [35] There will be two grinding grain together. One will be taken, and the other will be left."

• 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 2 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.

• Genesis 19:1-38 2 votes

  [1] The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the earth, [2] and he said, "See now, my lords, please turn aside into your servant's house, stay all night, wash your feet, and you will rise up early, and go on your way." They said, "No, but we will stay in the street all night." [3] He urged them greatly, and they came in with him, and entered into his house. He made them a feast, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. [4] But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter. [5] They called to Lot, and said to him, "Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them." [6] Lot went out to them to the door, and shut the door after him. [7] He said, "Please, my brothers, don't act so wickedly. [8] See now, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you, and do you to them as is good in your eyes. Only don't do anything to these men, because they have come under the shadow of my roof." [9] They said, "Stand back!" They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them!" They pressed hard on the man, even Lot, and drew near to break the door. [10] But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut the door. [11] They struck the men who were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves to find the door. [12] The men said to Lot, "Do you have anybody else here? Sons-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and whoever you have in the city, bring them out of the place: [13] for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is grown great before Yahweh. Yahweh has sent us to destroy it." [14] Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, "Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking. [15] When the morning arose, then the angels hurried Lot, saying, "Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters who are here, lest you be consumed in the iniquity of the city." [16] But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they took him out, and set him outside of the city. [17] It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, "Escape for your life! Don't look behind you, neither stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed!" [18] Lot said to them, "Oh, not so, my lord. [19] See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown to me in saving my life. I can't escape to the mountain, lest evil overtake me, and I die. [20] See now, this city is near to flee to, and it is a little one. Oh let me escape there (isn't it a little one?), and my soul will live." [21] He said to him, "Behold, I have granted your request concerning this thing also, that I will not overthrow the city of which you have spoken. [22] Hurry, escape there, for I can't do anything until you get there." Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar. [23] The sun was risen on the earth when Lot came to Zoar. [24] Then Yahweh rained on Sodom and on Gomorrah sulfur and fire from Yahweh out of the sky. [25] He overthrew those cities, all the plain, all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew on the ground. [26] But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. [27] Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh. [28] He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and looked, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace. [29] It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived. [30] Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters. [31] The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. [32] Come, let's make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." [33] They made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose. [34] It came to pass on the next day, that the firstborn said to the younger, "Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine again, tonight. You go in, and lie with him, that we may preserve our father's seed." [35] They made their father drink wine that night also. The younger arose, and lay with him. He didn't know when she lay down, nor when she arose. [36] Thus both of Lot's daughters were with child by their father. [37] The firstborn bore a son, and named him Moab. The same is the father of the Moabites to this day. [38] The younger also bore a son, and called his name Ben Ammi. The same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.

• Romans 1:26 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.

• Romans 10:13 2 votes

  For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved."

• 1 John 2:1-29 2 votes

  [1] My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. [2] And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. [3] This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments. [4] One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him. [5] But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most assuredly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him: [6] he who says he remains in him ought himself also to walk just like he walked. [7] Brothers, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning. [8] Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines. [9] He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. [10] He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. [11] But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes. [12] I write to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake. [13] I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father. [14] I have written to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God remains in you, and you have overcome the evil one. [15] Don't love the world, neither the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father's love isn't in him. [16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's. [17] The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever. [18] Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the end times. [19] They went out from us, but they didn't belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us. [20] You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know the truth. [21] I have not written to you because you don't know the truth, but because you know it, and because no lie is of the truth. [22] Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son. [23] Whoever denies the Son, the same doesn't have the Father. He who confesses the Son has the Father also. [24] Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father. [25] This is the promise which he promised us, the eternal life. [26] These things I have written to you concerning those who would lead you astray. [27] As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him. [28] Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming. [29] If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of him.

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