(LifeSiteNews) — The Bible says nothing about abortion and homosexual “marriage,” according to a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate.
James Talarico is currently running to be the nominee for the 2026 Senate race in Texas. Currently the seat is held by Republican John Cornyn. Talarico is a state representative.
“The Bible doesn’t mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick,” Talarico’s campaign account posted, along with a video of him making similar remarks in a bland chapel of some sort. “The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people.”
Talarico went on to list things that would be needed for this country to truly be Christian, while also denying that the country could ever become a Christian nation.
The country, meaning taxpayers, would need to provide universal healthcare, house and feed every child, support “LGBTQ neighbors,” and bailout student loan holders. In other words, the Bible says nothing about killing babies or protecting God’s design for sexuality but happens to support Talarico’s exact political agenda.
Before diving into all the things wrong with Talarico’s statement, it would be good to understand the strategy here.
Democrats often fail to win over white, male Christian voters because their agenda is effeminate and out of touch with masculinity, though party leaders do not understand this.
White, male Christian voters, and right-leaning men in general, are concerned about grown men invading girls’ bathrooms, locker rooms, and sports. They are concerned about protecting their right to hunt and defend their homes with guns. Many do not like the idea of public-school teachers grooming young kids to claim to be transgender.
However, what Democrats think they can do to win is to sprinkle on some vaguely Christian themes over their left-wing agenda and hope right-leaning men are too stupid to notice. This is the same strategy used with no success by Pete Buttigieg, a homosexual who is “married” to another man. Indeed, Buttigieg himself claimed while running for the Democratic presidential nomination that the Bible is unclear on the issue of abortion. Pro-life Republicans, Buttigieg claimed in 2019, “hold everybody in line with this one kind of piece of doctrine about abortion.”
“Then again, you know, there’s a lot of parts of the Bible that talk about how life begins with breath,” he said during an interview on “The Breakfast Club,” a show popular with black Americans. “And so even that is something that we can interpret differently.”
In 2020, Buttigieg also suggested a voter concerned about homosexuality should think more generally about welcoming strangers and feeding the hungry. In other words, focus less on promoting sexual morality and think about church as just another social service operator.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz also used this strategy to no avail when he suggested the real “Golden Rule” means letting women kill their babies through all nine months of pregnancy.
“We’ve got a Golden Rule, mind your own damn business,” Walz said to applause at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. It’s easy to imagine a 27-year-old gender studies major writing that line for Walz and thinking it would be a clever way to get Christians to vote for Walz and Kamala Harris – after all, he said “Golden Rule!”
Having established this, we can now touch on just a few of the many problems with Talarico’s claims, and those of his fellow Democrats. Claim: Bible doesn’t say anything about abortion
This claim presupposes all moral laws must be explicitly spelled out in the Bible. Instead, we can extrapolate moral teachings based on general principles – something Talarico himself tries to do by saying healing the sick must refer to so-called universal healthcare.
Of course, the Bible is clear that “thou shalt not kill.” And it would be odd to claim that God, the Creator of all life, would be okay with killing preborn babies.
As. St. Pope John Paul II explains in Evangelium Vitae:
The texts of Sacred Scripture never address the question of deliberate abortion and so do not directly and specifically condemn it. But they show such great respect for the human being in the mother’s womb that they require as a logical consequence that God’s commandment ‘You shall not kill’ be extended to the unborn child as well.
Early Catholics, through the present day, have confirmed this truth. Consider that the apocryphal “Apocalypse of Peter,” dated to around 100 to 150 A.D., suggests that women who have abortions are not only in hell but are tormented by babies. While this is not in the canon, and was not written by St. Peter, it suggests that even early Christians view abortion as a grave sin. Claim: Bible does not say anything about homosexual ‘marriage’
Liberals are torn amongst themselves – some will claim the Bible says nothing about homosexuality, while others claim that the Bible supports homosexuality. Catholic Answers apologist Trent Horn addresses both claims here and here.
In fact, the Bible, along with the Catholic Church, is quite clear in condemning homosexual behavior. Genesis, Leviticus, Romans, and Corinthians, to name a few, all expressly condemn homosexual behavior. Because the admonition is included in the New Testament, it is clear it was not just a temporary law for the Israelites. Talarico also does not understand the Bible
James Talarico is clearly confused about the Bible and sexual morality. However, he also misunderstands Bible verses. While Jesus certainly does heal the sick and call on us to forgive debts, this is about sins and forgiving those who sin against us. It is not simply a literal admonition to bring cold medicine to those who are sick.
Certainly, forgiving those who have sinned against us might mean forgiving literal debts. Forgiving actual monetary debts could be a form of mercy as well – for example, a hospital who waives a massive medical debt for a poor person. And physically caring for the sick is one way we live out our Christianity.
But Christ did not come to simply call for a big government system that wiped away student loan debt and instituted a so-called single-payer healthcare system.
Talarico wants to see in the Bible that which is not there and not see that which is there. For him, we might pray that he be cleared of his spiritual blindness and the veil of ignorance lifted.
FReepers would you care to school Mr. James Talarico on just what the Bible says about abortion and homosexuality?
When my wife and I were first married, she would make lunches for the seminarians who were assigned to the Institute of Christ the King's Shrine of St. Mary. One of those young men was Matthew Talarico. Now, 25+ years later:
Provincial Superior: Rev. Canon Matthew Talarico (also referred to as Reverend Canon Matthew Talarico or Canon Matthew Talarico). He serves as the primary head of the U.S. Province.
Canon Talarico is likely at least a distant relative of James Talarico, and could easily straighten James out, if he had but ears to hear.
Some helpful references for the moron Senate Candidate:
Homosexuality
Leviticus 18:22 ESV / 17,031 helpful votes
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 16,543 helpful 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 is upon them.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 10,113 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 9,652 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Jude 1:7 ESV / 9,119 helpful votes
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 8,117 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 6,494 helpful votes
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
1 Timothy 1:10 ESV / 6,305 helpful votes
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Romans 1:27 ESV / 6,209 helpful votes
And the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Romans 1:26-28 ESV / 6,000 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Mark 10:6-9 ESV / 5,723 helpful votes
But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 4,780 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...
Romans 1:26 ESV / 4,042 helpful votes
For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
1 Kings 14:24 ESV / 3,814 helpful votes
And there were also male cult prostitutes in the land. They did according to all the abominations of the nations that the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
Romans 1:18-32 ESV / 3,802 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ...
1 Timothy 1:9-10 ESV / 3,719 helpful votes
Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
1 Timothy 1:8-10 ESV / 3,563 helpful votes
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine,
Romans 1:1-32 ESV / 3,532 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, ...
1 Corinthians 7:2 ESV / 3,525 helpful votes
But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
Genesis 1:27 ESV / 3,426 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 3,351 helpful votes
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Matthew 19:4-6 ESV / 3,294 helpful votes
He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 3,219 helpful votes
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. ...
1 Timothy 1:8-11 ESV / 3,134 helpful votes
Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
2 Kings 23:7 ESV / 3,129 helpful votes
And he broke down the houses of the male cult prostitutes who were in the house of the Lord, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.
Romans 1:32 ESV / 3,034 helpful votes
Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV / 2,995 helpful votes
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ...
1 Timothy 1:10-11 ESV / 2,953 helpful votes
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 2,929 helpful votes
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
1 Kings 15:12 ESV / 2,860 helpful votes
He put away the male cult prostitutes out of the land and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
Genesis 2:24 ESV / 2,828 helpful votes
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Genesis 19:5 ESV / 2,751 helpful votes
And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”
Ezekiel 16:49-50 ESV / 2,723 helpful votes
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abomination before me. So I removed them, when I saw it.
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 2,558 helpful votes
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Leviticus 18:22-24 ESV / 2,467 helpful votes
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion. “Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean,
Deuteronomy 23:1 ESV / 2,427 helpful votes
“No one whose testicles are crushed or whose male organ is cut off shall enter the assembly of the Lord.
Leviticus 20:1-27 ESV / 2,340 helpful votes
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary unclean and to profane my holy name. And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death, then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in whoring after Molech. ...
Judges 19:22 ESV / 2,300 helpful votes
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”
Genesis 1:1-2:25 ESV / 2,293 helpful votes
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...
Matthew 11:8 ESV / 2,270 helpful votes
What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who wear soft clothing are in kings’ houses.
Romans 1:24 ESV / 2,268 helpful votes
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,
Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2,248 helpful votes
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Matthew 19:12 ESV / 2,131 helpful votes
For there are eunuchs who have been so from birth, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let the one who is able to receive this receive it.”
Judges 19:1-30 ESV / 2,090 helpful votes
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house. And when the girl’s father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.” ...
Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2,057 helpful votes
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
Genesis 19:4-5 ESV / 2,031 helpful votes
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”
1 Kings 22:46 ESV / 2,010 helpful votes
And from the land he exterminated the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa.
Genesis 18:20-21 ESV / 1,933 helpful votes
Then the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry that has come to me. And if not, I will know.”
1 Timothy 1:9-11 ESV / 1,918 helpful votes
Understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
Matthew 8:5-13 ESV / 1,874 helpful votes
When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” ...
Deuteronomy 23:17 ESV / 1,867 helpful votes
“None of the daughters of Israel shall be a cult prostitute, and none of the sons of Israel shall be a cult prostitute.
Acts 8:1-40 ESV / 1,836 helpful votes
And Saul approved of his execution. And there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles. Devout men buried Stephen and made great lamentation over him. But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. ...
Deuteronomy 22:5 ESV / 1,830 helpful votes
“A woman shall not wear a man’s garment, nor shall a man put on a woman’s cloak, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord your God.
Romans 3:23 ESV / 1,821 helpful votes
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Luke 7:25 ESV / 1,805 helpful votes
What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Behold, those who are dressed in splendid clothing and live in luxury are in kings’ courts.
Romans 1:18-2:29 ESV / 1,785 helpful votes
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, ...
Luke 7:1-10 ESV / 1,782 helpful votes
After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...
Luke 7:1-50 ESV / 1,780 helpful votes
After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue.” ...
Romans 1:24-27 ESV / 1,719 helpful votes
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Genesis 19:1-11 ESV / 1,719 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...
Matthew 19:3 ESV / 1,708 helpful votes
And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”
Luke 7:2 ESV / 1,702 helpful votes
Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.
Genesis 1:27-28 ESV / 1,691 helpful votes
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
1 Corinthians 6:18 ESV / 1,649 helpful votes
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.
Genesis 2:20-24 ESV / 1,626 helpful votes
The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Judges 19:16-24 ESV / 1,594 helpful votes
And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites. And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, “Where are you going? And where do you come from?” And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the Lord, but no one has taken me into his house. We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.” And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.” ...
Genesis 19:1-13 ESV / 1,581 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...
Mark 7:20-23 ESV / 1,548 helpful votes
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”
Matthew 18:15-17 ESV / 1,449 helpful votes
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.
John 8:7-11 ESV / 1,386 helpful votes
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]]
Isaiah 56:3-5 ESV / 1,340 helpful votes
Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.” For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me and hold fast my covenant, I will give in my house and within my walls a monument and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that shall not be cut off.
Hebrews 13:1-5 ESV / 1,328 helpful votes
Let brotherly love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body. Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous. Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Genesis 19:1-5 ESV / 1,316 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.”
Galatians 5:14 ESV / 1,297 helpful votes
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Romans 1:24-25 ESV / 1,286 helpful votes
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
James 1:13-15 ESV / 1,278 helpful votes
Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
James 4:12 ESV / 1,260 helpful votes
There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
John 3:16 ESV / 1,248 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 1,221 helpful votes
Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.
Isaiah 3:8-9 ESV / 1,210 helpful votes
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence. For the look on their faces bears witness against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil on themselves.
1 John 4:8 ESV / 1,188 helpful votes
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV / 1,168 helpful votes
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
Romans 1:1 ESV / 1,107 helpful votes
Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Matthew 15:19 ESV / 1,101 helpful votes
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.
Matthew 7:1-2 ESV / 1,048 helpful votes
“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.
Genesis 1:31 ESV / 1,007 helpful votes
And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 996 helpful votes
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Colossians 3:5 ESV / 985 helpful votes
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
Judges 19:1-21:25 ESV / 931 helpful votes
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house. And when the girl’s father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.” ...
1 Timothy 1:2 ESV / 860 helpful votes
To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Revelation 9:21 ESV / 796 helpful votes
Nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
Genesis 19:1 ESV / 786 helpful votes
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth
Revelation 22:15 ESV / 751 helpful votes
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
Genesis 2:18-25 ESV / 726 helpful votes
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. ...
Acts 15:29 ESV / 713 helpful votes
That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV / 499 helpful votes
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Matthew 19:1-30 ESV / 489 helpful votes
Now when Jesus had finished these sayings, he went away from Galilee and entered the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there. And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ...
John 1:12 ESV / 465 helpful votes
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Romans 1:2 ESV / 461 helpful votes
Which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures,
John 3:16-17 ESV / 450 helpful votes
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
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