Bible verses about "idolaters" | BBE

¹ Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news, ² Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings, ³ About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David, ⁴ But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord, ⁵ Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name: ⁶ Among whom you in the same way have been marked out to be disciples of Jesus Christ: ⁷ To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. ⁸ First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world. ⁹ For God is my witness, whose servant I am in spirit in the good news of his Son, that you are at all times in my memory and in my prayers, ¹⁰ And that I am ever making prayers that God will give me a good journey to you. ¹¹ For I have a strong desire to see you, and to give you some grace of the spirit, so that you may be made strong; ¹² That is to say, that all of us may be comforted together by the faith which is in you and in me. ¹³ You may be certain, my brothers, that it has frequently been in my mind to come to you but till now I was kept from it, so that I might have some fruit from you in the same way as I have had it from the other nations. ¹⁴ I have a debt to Greeks and to the nations outside; to the wise and to those who have no learning. ¹⁵ For which reason I have the desire, as far as I am able, to give the knowledge of the good news to you who are in Rome. ¹⁶ For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith. ¹⁸ For there is a revelation of the wrath of God from heaven against all the wrongdoing and evil thoughts of men who keep down what is true by wrongdoing; ¹⁹ Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them. ²⁰ For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing: ²¹ Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark. ²² Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish, ²³ And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth. ²⁴ For this reason God gave them up to the evil desires of their hearts, working shame in their bodies with one another: ²⁵ Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: ²⁷ And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing. ²⁸ And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right; ²⁹ Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others; ³⁰ Hated by God, full of pride, without respect, full of loud talk, given to evil inventions, not honouring father or mother, ³¹ Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy: ³² Who, though they have knowledge of the law of God, that the fate of those who do these things is death, not only go on doing these things themselves, but give approval to those who do them.

¹⁴ But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire. ¹⁵ Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

¹⁵ Outside are the dogs, and those who make use of evil powers, those who make themselves unclean, and the takers of life, and those who give worship to images, and everyone whose delight is in what is false.

³ For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh; ⁴ So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour; ⁵ Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;

¹ And at nightfall the two angels came to Sodom; and Lot was seated at the way into the town: and when he saw them he got up and came before them, falling down on his face to the earth. ² And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street. ³ But he made his request more strongly, so they went with him into his house; and he got food ready for them, and made unleavened bread, of which they took. ⁴ But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town; ⁵ And crying out to Lot, they said, Where are the men who came to your house this night? Send them out to us, so that we may take our pleasure with them. ⁶ And Lot went out to them in the doorway, shutting the door after him. ⁷ And he said, My brothers, do not this evil. ⁸ See now, I have two unmarried daughters; I will send them out to you so that you may do to them whatever seems good to you: only do nothing to these men, for this is why they have come under the shade of my roof. ⁹ And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in. ¹⁰ But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again. ¹¹ But the men who were outside the door they made blind, all of them, small and great, so that they were tired out with looking for the door. ¹² Then the men said to Lot, Are there any others of your family here? sons-in-law or sons or daughters, take them all out of this place; ¹³ For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town. ¹⁴ And Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were married to his daughters, Come, let us go out of this place, for the Lord is about to send destruction on the town. But his sons-in-law did not take him seriously. ¹⁵ And when morning came, the angels did all in their power to make Lot go, saying, Get up quickly and take your wife and your two daughters who are here, and go, for fear that you come to destruction in the punishment of the town. ¹⁶ But while he was waiting, the men took him and his wife and his daughters by the hand, for the Lord had mercy on them, and put them outside the town. ¹⁷ And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction. ¹⁸ And Lot said to them, Not so, O my Lord; ¹⁹ See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death; ²⁰ This town, now, is near, and it is a little one: O, let me go there is it not a little one? so that my life may be safe. ²¹ And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town. ²² Go there quickly, for I am not able to do anything till you have come there. For this reason, the town was named Zoar. ²³ The sun was up when Lot came to Zoar. ²⁴ Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah. ²⁵ And he sent destruction on those towns, with all the lowland and all the people of those towns and every green thing in the land. ²⁶ But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt. ²⁷ And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord: ²⁸ And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven. ²⁹ So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living. ³⁰ Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock. ³¹ And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way: ³² Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father, ³³ And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. ³⁴ And on the day after, the older daughter said to the younger, Last night I was with my father; let us make him take much wine this night again, and do you go to him, so that we may have offspring by our father. ³⁵ And that night again they made their father take much wine; and the younger daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away. ³⁶ And so the two daughters of Lot were with child by their father. ³⁷ And the older daughter had a son, and she gave him the name Moab: he is the father of the Moabites to this day. ³⁸ And the younger had a son and gave him the name Ben-ammi: from him come the children of Ammon to this day.

²² You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses, ²⁰ Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings, ²¹ Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

⁷ Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the towns near them, having like these, given themselves up to unclean desires and gone after strange flesh, have been made an example, undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

⁵ Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

⁸ But those who are full of fear and without faith, the unclean and takers of life, those who do the sins of the flesh, and those who make use of evil powers or who give worship to images, and all those who are false, will have their part in the sea of ever-burning fire which is the second death.

¹³ And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.

²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural: ²⁷ And in the same way the men gave up the natural use of the woman and were burning in their desire for one another, men doing shame with men, and getting in their bodies the right reward of their evil-doing.

⁹ Have you not knowledge that evil-doers will have no part in the kingdom of God? Have no false ideas about this: no one who goes after the desires of the flesh, or gives worship to images, or is untrue when married, or is less than a man, or makes a wrong use of men, ¹⁰ Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.