Bible verses about "gays" | Goodspeed

¹² Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

²⁶ That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural, ²⁷ and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done.

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom.

¹² There is only one lawgiver and judge—he who has the power to save and to destroy; who are you, to judge your neighbor?

⁸ Whoever fails to provide for his own relatives, and particularly for members of his own family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹ "Pass no more judgments upon other people, so that you may not have judgment passed upon you. ² For you will be judged by the standard you judge by, and men will pay you back with the same measure you have used with them. ³ Why do you keep looking at the speck in your brother's eye, and pay no attention to the beam that is in your own? ⁴ How can you say to your brother, 'Just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own? ⁵ You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye. ⁶ "Do not give what is sacred to dogs, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, or they will trample them under their feet and turn and tear you in pieces. ⁷ Ask, and what you ask will be given you. Search, and you will find what you search for. Knock, and the door will open to you. ⁸ For it is always the one who asks who receives, and the one who searches who finds, and the one who knocks to whom the door opens. ⁹ Which of you men when his son asks him for some bread will give him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a snake? ¹¹ So if you, bad as you are, know enough to give your children what is good, how much more surely will your Father in heaven give what is good to those who ask him for it! ¹² Therefore, you must always treat other people as you would like to have them treat you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. ¹³ "Go in at the narrow gate. For the road that leads to destruction is broad and spacious, and there are many who go in by it. ¹⁴ But the gate is narrow and the road is hard that leads to life, and there are few that find it. ¹⁵ "Beware of the false prophets, who come to you disguised as sheep but are ravenous wolves underneath. ¹⁶ You can tell them by their fruit. Do people pick grapes off thorns, or figs off thistles? ¹⁷ Just so any sound tree bears good fruit, but a poor tree bears bad fruit. ¹⁸ No sound tree can bear bad fruit, and no poor tree can bear good fruit. ¹⁹ Any tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and burned. ²⁰ So you can tell them by their fruit. ²¹ It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven. ²² Many will say to me on that Day, 'Lord! Lord! Was it not in your name that we prophesied, and by your name that we drove out demons, and by your name that we did many mighty acts?' ²³ Then I will say to them plainly, 'I never knew you! Go away from me, you who do wrong!' ²⁴ "Everyone, therefore, who listens to this teaching of mine and acts upon it, will be like a sensible man who built his house on rock. ²⁵ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew, and beat about that house, and it did not go down, for its foundations were on rock. ²⁶ And anyone who listens to this teaching of mine and does not act upon it, will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ And the rain fell, and the rivers rose, and the winds blew and beat about that house, and it went down, and its downfall was complete." ²⁸ When Jesus had finished this discourse, the crowds were astounded at his teaching, ²⁹ for he taught them like one who had authority and not like their scribes.

¹¹ He said to them, "It is not everyone who can accept that, but only those who have a special gift. ¹² For some are incapable of marriage from their birth, and some have been made so by men, and some have made themselves so for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. Let him accept it who can."

²⁸ There is no room for "Jew" and "Greek"; there is no room for "slave" and "freeman"; there is no room for "male" and "female"; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.

¹⁴ For the whole Law is summed up in one saying: "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself."

²⁰ If anyone says, "I love God," and yet hates his brother, he is a liar; for whoever does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

¹ "Pass no more judgments upon other people, so that you may not have judgment passed upon you.

⁸ Owe nobody anything—except the duty of mutual love, for whoever loves his fellow-men has fully satisfied the Law. ⁹ For the commandments, "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and any other commandments there are, are all summed up in one saying, "You must love your neighbor as you do yourself." ¹⁰ Love never wrongs a neighbor, and so love fully satisfies the Law.

²⁹ Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.

³² They know God's decree that those who act in this way deserve to die, yet they not only do it, but applaud any who do.

³ For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

⁷ just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns which like them indulged in immorality and unnatural vice stand as a warning, in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.

²⁶ That is why God has abandoned them to degrading passions. Their women have exchanged their natural function for one that is unnatural, ²⁷ and men too in the same way have disregarded the natural function of women and been consumed with passion for one another, men for men, acting indecently, and experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done. ²⁸ And just as they refused to recognize God any longer, God has abandoned them to unworthy impulses and indecent conduct.

⁹ Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice ¹⁰ or thieves or greedy—drunkards, abusive people, robbers—will not have any share in God's kingdom. ¹¹ Some of you used to be like that; but you have washed it all away, you have been consecrated, you have become upright, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ and through the Spirit of our God.