Bible verses about "gay" | Worsley

²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to impurity, in the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves; ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature instead of the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. ²⁶ Therefore God gave them up to infamous passions: for even their women changed the natural use into that which is unnatural, ²⁷ and the men likewise, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust to one another, men with men committing shame, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which they deserved.

¹ Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whoever thou art, that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest dost the same things. ² But we know that the judgement of God is according to truth against those that do such things. ³ And thinkest thou, O man, who judgest those that do such things, and dost the same, that thou shalt escape the judgement of God? ⁴ Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness, and forbearance, and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? ⁵ But by thy hardness and impenitence of heart thou art treasuring up to thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgement of God, ⁶ who will render to every one according to his works: ⁷ to them, who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, and honor, and immortality, eternal life: ⁸ but to those who are contentious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath. ⁹ Tribulation and anguish shall be upon every soul of man that worketh evil, both of the Jew, and of the Gentile: ¹⁰ but glory, and honor, and peace to every one that worketh good, both to the Jew, and to the Greek: ¹¹ for there is no respect of persons with God. ¹² For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law; and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law; ¹³ (for not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified: ¹⁴ for when the Gentiles, who have not the law, do by nature the duties of the law, these though they have not the law, are a law to themselves, ¹⁵ and shew the work of the law written on their hearts, their conscience witnessing together with it, and their own thoughts either accusing, or excusing them,) ¹⁶ in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. ¹⁷ Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God, ¹⁸ and knowest his will, and approvest things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹ and art persuaded that thou art a guide of the blind, ²⁰ a light to them that are in the darkness, an instructor of the simple, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth which is in the law. ²¹ Thou then, who teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou, that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? ²² Thou, that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou, that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? ²³ Thou, that boastest in the law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God? ²⁴ for through you the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written. ²⁵ For circumcision indeed is profitable, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision. ²⁶ Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteous precepts of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be accounted to him for circumcision? ²⁷ and shall not the uncircumcision that is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law? for he is not a Jew, who is only so in appearance; ²⁸ nor is that circumcision, which is only in appearance, in the flesh; ²⁹ but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter: whose praise is not from men, but from God.

⁷ for I could wish that all men were as I myself am; but every man hath his proper gift from God, one of one kind and another of another? ⁸ Now to the unmarried and widows I say, it is good for them to continue so, as I do. ⁹ But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with lust.

¹² Now there is but one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou then that judgest another?

⁹ knowing this, that a law does not lie against a righteous person, but against the lawless and unruly, the impious and wicked, the unholy and profane, ¹⁰ parricides, murderers, whoremongers, sodomites, kidnappers, liars, false-swearers, and if there be any thing else contrary to that sound doctrine,

³⁹ Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁸ But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own family, he hath renounced the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

²⁶ Therefore God gave them up to infamous passions: for even their women changed the natural use into that which is unnatural, ²⁷ and the men likewise, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust to one another, men with men committing shame, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which they deserved.

⁸ Owe no one any thing, but to love one another; for he that loveth others hath fulfilled the law: ⁹ for this command, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet, and every other social precept, is summed up in this, namely, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." ¹⁰ Love worketh no evil to our neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

²⁸ and there is neither Jew nor Greek, those is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ For all the law is fulfilled in one precept, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

⁶ but from the beginning of the world, God created them male and female. ⁷ For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, ⁸ and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh: so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. ⁹ Therefore let not man separate what God hath joined together.

⁴ Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them, in like manner with them committing lewdness, and going after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of perpetual fire.

⁹ What! know ye 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 the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor rapacious persons, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

²⁶ Therefore God gave them up to infamous passions: for even their women changed the natural use into that which is unnatural, ²⁷ and the men likewise, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust to one another, men with men committing shame, and receiving in themselves the recompence of their error which they deserved. ²⁸ And as they were not careful to acknowledge God, God gave them up to an undiscerning mind to do things that were not fit to be done: