Bible verses about "gays" | Godbey

¹² Therefore all things whatsoever you may wish that the people may do unto you, do ye even so unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

²⁶ On account of this God gave them up to the lusts of dishonor: for indeed their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: ²⁷ likewise also the men, having left the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire towards one another; men with men working out disgrace, and receiving the reward of their error among themselves which it behooved.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor scolds, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹² There is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: but who are you, the one judging your neighbor.

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

¹ Criticise not, that you may not be criticised. ² For with what criticism you criticise, you will be criticised: and with what measure you measure, it will be measured unto you. ³ But why do you see the mote which is in the eye of your brother, and do not recognize the beam which is in your own eye? ⁴ Or how will you say to your brother, Permit me, I will cast out the mote from your eye; and behold, there is a beam in your own eye? ⁵ O hypocrite, first cast out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to cast out the mote from the eye of your brother. ⁶ Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest they may trample them under their feet, and having turned round tear you to pieces. ⁷ Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. ⁸ For every one asking receives; and the one seeking finds; and to the one knocking it shall be opened. ⁹ What man is there of you, whom, if his son shall ask bread, he will give him a stone? ¹⁰ And if he may ask a fish, whether will he give him a serpent? ¹¹ Therefore if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in the heavens give good things to them that ask Him? ¹² Therefore all things whatsoever you may wish that the people may do unto you, do ye even so unto them: for this is the law and the prophets. ¹³ Enter ye in through the narrow gate: because wide is the gate and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there are, who are going in through it. ¹⁴ Because narrow is the gate, and contracted the way, that leadeth into life, and few there are who find it. ¹⁵ But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are rapacious wolves. ¹⁶ You shall know them by their fruits. Do the people gather the grape-bunches from thorns, or figs from thistles? ¹⁷ So every good tree produces good fruits; and a corrupt tree produces evil fruits. ¹⁸ A good tree is not able to produce evil fruits, neither is a corrupt tree able to produce beautiful fruits. ¹⁹ Every tree not producing beautiful fruit is cut down and cast into the fire. ²⁰ Therefore you shall know them perfectly by their fruits. ²¹ Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens. ²² Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out demons, and in thy name done many mighty works? ²³ Then I will confess unto them that I never knew you: depart from me, ye who work iniquity. ²⁴ Then every one who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock. ²⁵ And the rain came down, and the rivers came, and the winds blew, and fell against that house; and it did not fall; for it was founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And every one hearing these words of mine, and doing them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand. ²⁷ And the rain came down, and the rivers came, and the winds blew, and beat against that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. ²⁸ And it came to pass when Jesus finished these discourses, the multitudes were astonished at His teaching: ²⁹ for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

¹¹ And He said to them, All do not receive this word, but those to whom it has been given. ¹² For there are eunuchs, who have been so born from the womb of their mother. And there are eunuchs, who have been eunuchized by men: and there are eunuchs, who eunuchized themselves for the sake of the kingdom of the heavens. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it.

²⁸ There is no longer Jew nor Greek, nor bond nor free, nor male and female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

¹⁴ For the whole law has been fulfilled in one word, in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor with divine love as thyself.

²⁰ If any one may say, I love God with divine love, and may hate his brother, he is a liar: for the one not loving his brother whom he has seen, with divine love, is not able to love God, whom he has not seen, with divine love.

¹ Criticise not, that you may not be criticised.

⁸ Owe no man anything, but to love one another with divine love: for the one loving another with divine love has fulfilled the law. ⁹ For, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet, and if there is any other commandment, it is fulfilled in this word, in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself with divine love. ¹⁰ Divine love works no evil to its neighbor: for divine love is the fulfilling of the law.

³² who, knowing the rightfulness of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but they even delight in those who are doing them.

²⁹ But Peter and the apostles responding said, It behooves us to obey God rather than men.

³ For the time will come when they will not endure healthy teaching; but according to their own lusts they will heap to themselves teachers itching as to their hearing;

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, in a manner like unto them committing fornication, and going after other flesh, present an example receiving the vengeance of eternal fire.

²⁶ On account of this God gave them up to the lusts of dishonor: for indeed their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: ²⁷ likewise also the men, having left the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire towards one another; men with men working out disgrace, and receiving the reward of their error among themselves which it behooved. ²⁸ And as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are inappropriate;

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor scolds, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but you have washed, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God.