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Sex / Homosexual Conduct
Romans 1 and 1 Corinthians 6 address same-sex sexual conduct as contrary to God's will. Conduct must be distinguished from scientific questions about the development of attraction; 1 Corinthians 6:11 also emphasizes cleansing and transformation.
Key KJV Scriptures:
Romans 1:24-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Key KJV Scriptures: Full Text
7 indexed verses · Showing 1–7. Read each passage in its chapter context.
Romans 1:24 (KJV)
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 1:25 (KJV)
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Romans 1:26 (KJV)
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:27 (KJV)
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
1 Corinthians 6:9 (KJV)
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
1 Corinthians 6:10 (KJV)
Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:11 (KJV)
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.