They called out to Lot and said, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have sex with them!”(A)

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They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”(A)

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13 If a man sleeps with a man as with a woman,(A) they have both committed a detestable thing.(B) They must be put to death; their blood is on their own hands.[a]

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  1. Leviticus 20:13 Lit on them

13 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.(A) They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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18 Do not bring a female prostitute’s wages or a male prostitute’s[a] earnings into the house of the Lord your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the Lord your God.

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  1. Deuteronomy 23:18 Lit a dog’s

18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute[a] into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.(A)

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  1. Deuteronomy 23:18 Hebrew of a dog

From Idolatry to Depravity

26 This is why God delivered them over to degrading passions.(A) For even their females exchanged natural sexual relations[a] for unnatural ones. 27 The males in the same way also left natural relations[b] with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males(B) and received in their own persons[c] the appropriate penalty of their error.

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  1. Romans 1:26 Lit natural use
  2. Romans 1:27 Lit natural use
  3. Romans 1:27 Or in themselves

26 Because of this, God gave them over(A) to shameful lusts.(B) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.(C) 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.(D)

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Don’t you know that the unrighteous(A) will not inherit God’s kingdom?(B) Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters,(C) adulterers,(D) or anyone practicing homosexuality,[a](E) 10 no thieves,(F) greedy(G) people, drunkards, verbally abusive people,(H) or swindlers(I) will inherit God’s kingdom. 11 And some of you used to be like this.(J) But you were washed, you were sanctified,(K) you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Lit adulterers, passive homosexual partners, active homosexual partners

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?(A) Do not be deceived:(B) Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers(C) nor men who have sex with men[a](D) 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers(E) will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were.(F) But you were washed,(G) you were sanctified,(H) you were justified(I) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.

21 envy,[a](A) drunkenness, carousing,(B) and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(C)

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  1. Galatians 5:21 Other mss add murders

21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.(A) I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.(B)

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10 for the sexually immoral(A) and homosexuals,(B) for kidnappers,[a] liars,(C) perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching(D)

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  1. 1 Timothy 1:10 Or slave traders

10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine(A)

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But the cowards, unbelievers,[a] vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur,(A) which is the second death.”

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  1. Revelation 21:8 Other mss add the sinful

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars(A)—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.(B) This is the second death.”(C)

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