Bible verses about "gays" | Sawyer

¹² All things, therefore, which you wish men to do to you, do also thus to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

^{26 (2:3)} Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature, ²⁷ and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit.

⁹ Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹² There is one law-giver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you that judge a neighbor?

⁸ And if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

^{1 (5:11)} Judge not, that you be not judged; ² for with what judgment you judge you shall be judged; and with what measure you measure it shall be measured to you. ³ And why do you see a speck in your brother's eye, and not consider a beam in your own eye? ⁴ or how will you say to your brother, Let me cast out the speck from your eye, and behold a beam in your own eye? ⁵ Hypocrite, cast out first the beam from your eye, and then will you see clearly to cast out the speck from your brother's eye. ⁶ Give not a holy thing to dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they tread them down with their feet, and turn and rend you. ⁷ Ask, and it shall be given you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. ⁸ For every one that asks, receives; and he that seeks, finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened. ⁹ Or is there any man of you, who, if his son asks bread of him, will give him a stone? ¹⁰ or if he asks a fish, will give him a serpent? ¹¹ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him. ¹² All things, therefore, which you wish men to do to you, do also thus to them; for this is the law and the prophets. ^{13 (5:12)} Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate; and spacious the way which leads to destruction, and many are they that enter in by it; ¹⁴ for narrow is the gate, and compressed the way which leads to life, and few are those who find it. ¹⁵ But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they are rapacious wolves. ¹⁶ You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns? or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So every good tree bears good fruits, but a bad tree bears bad fruits; ¹⁸ a good tree cannot bear bad fruits, nor a bad tree good fruits. ¹⁹ Every tree which bears not good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. ²⁰ By their fruits, therefore, you shall know them. ^{21 (5:13)} Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that does the will of my Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, and in your name cast out demons, and in your name performed many mighty works? ²³ and then will I confess to them, I never knew you; depart from me you that commit wickedness. ^{24 (5:14)} Every one, therefore, that hears these words of mine and performs them, I will liken to a wise man who built his house on the rock; ²⁵ and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell not, for it was founded on the rock. ²⁶ And every one who hears these words of mine and performs them not, shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house on the sand; ²⁷ and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, and it fell; and its fall was great. ²⁸ And when Jesus had finished these words the multitudes were astonished at his teaching; ²⁹ for he taught them as having authority, and not as their scribes.

¹¹ And he said to them, All do not receive this word, but those to whom it is given. ¹² For there are eunuchs from birth, who were born so from their mother; and there are eunuchs who are made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. He that is able to receive [this doctrine] let him receive it.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither servant nor freeman, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ For all the law is fully contained in one precept; you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

²⁰ If any one says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he that loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

^{1 (5:11)} Judge not, that you be not judged;

⁸ Owe no man any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another has fully performed the law. ⁹ For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not desire inordinately, and if there is any other commandment, it is summarily comprehended in this word; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁰ Love does no evil to a neighbor; love therefore is the sum of the law.

²⁹ And Peter answering, and the apostles, said, It is necessary to obey God rather than man.

³² who knowing the ordinance of God, that those who do such things deserve death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in those who do them.

³ for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear,

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, committing fornication in the same manner as these and going after unnatural lewdness, are made an example, enduring the punishment of eternal fire.

^{26 (2:3)} Therefore God gave them up to infamous affections; for their females changed a natural enjoyment for that which is against nature, ²⁷ and in like manner also the males, leaving the natural enjoyment of the female, became the subjects of inordinate desires for each other, males with males committing indecency, and receiving in return the recompense of their error which was fit. ^{28 (2:4)} And as they did not choose to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do things which are not proper,

⁹ Know you not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you are washed, you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.