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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 32:6

So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:16–18

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words / who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. / For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 5:3–5, 8–13

Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, / in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword. / Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 7:6–27

For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. / I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment, / crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 9:13–18

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. / She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the heights of the city, / calling out to those who pass by, who make their paths straight.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 20:16

Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 30:18–20

There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand: / the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship at sea, and the way of a man with a maiden. / This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Joel 3:3

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 7:21–23

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, / greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. / All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 1:22–29

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. / Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 7:8

But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 13:13

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 6:9, 10, 13, 15–18

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. / “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Corinthians 9:27

No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Galatians 5:19–21

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 4:17–19

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. / They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. / Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Ephesians 5:5

For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Timothy 3:6

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Peter 4:2, 3

Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. / For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

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Lasciviousness: General Scriptures Concerning Jude 1:4–7

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. / Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe. / And the angels who did not stay within their own domain but abandoned their proper dwelling—these He has kept in eternal chains under darkness, bound for judgment on that great day.

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