Bible verses about "gays" | Lamsa

¹² Whatever you wish men to do for you, do likewise also for them; for this is the law and the prophets.

²⁶ Therefore God has given them up to vile passions: for even their women have changed the natural use of their sex into that which is unnatural: ²⁷ And likewise also their men have left the natural use of the women and have run wild with lust toward one another, male with male committing shameful acts, and receiving in themselves the due recompense of their error.

⁹ Do you not know that the wicked shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not misled: neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the corrupt, nor men who lie down with males, ¹⁰ Nor extortioners, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor grafters, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

¹² For there is one lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you to judge your neighbor?

⁸ But, if any man does not provide for his own, and especially for those who are of his own household who are of the faith, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹ JUDGE not, that you may not be judged. ² For with the same judgment that you judge, you will be judged, and with the same measure with which you measure, it will be measured to you. ³ Why do you see the splinter which is in your brotherÆs eye, and do not feel the beam which is in your own eye? ⁴ Or how can you say to your brother, let me take out the splinter from your eye, and behold there is a cross beam in your own eye? ⁵ O hypocrites, first take out the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to get out the splinter from your brotherÆs eye. ⁶ Do not give holy things to the dogs; and do not throw your pearls before the swine, for they might tread them with their feet, and then turn and rend you. ⁷ Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you. ⁸ For whoever asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, the door is opened. ⁹ Or who is the man among you, who when his son asks him for bread, why, will he hand him a stone? ¹⁰ Or if he should ask him for fish, why, will he hand him a snake? ¹¹ If therefore you who err, know how to give good gifts to your sons, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him? ¹² Whatever you wish men to do for you, do likewise also for them; for this is the law and the prophets. ¹³ Enter in through the narrow door, for wide is the door, and broad is the road which carries to destruction, and many are those who travel on it. ¹⁴ O how narrow is the door, and how difficult is the road which carries to life, and few are those who are found on it. ¹⁵ Be careful of false prophets who come to you in lambÆs clothing, but within they are ravening wolves. ¹⁶ You will know them by their fruits. Why, do they 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, neither can a bad tree bear good fruits. ¹⁹ Any tree which does not bear good fruits will be cut down and cast into the fire. ²⁰ Thus by their fruits you will know them. ²¹ It is not everyone who merely says to me, My Lord, my Lord, will enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. ²² A great many will say to me in that day, My Lord, my Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out devils, and in your name do many wonders? ²³ Then I will declare to them, I have never known you; keep away from me, O you that work iniquity. ²⁴ Therefore whoever hears these words of mine, and does them, he is like a wise man, who built his house upon a rock. ²⁵ And the rain came down, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house; but it did not fall down, because its foundations were laid upon a rock. ²⁶ And whoever hears these words of mine, and does them not, is like a foolish man, who built his house upon sand. ²⁷ And the rain came down, and the rivers overflowed, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house; and it fell down, and its fall was very great. ²⁸ And it happened when Jesus finished these words, the crowds were stunned at his teaching. ²⁹ For he taught them as one who had the power, and not like their own scribes and Pharisees.

¹¹ He said to them, This saying does not apply to every man, but to whom it is needed. ¹² For there are eunuchs who were born this way from their motherÆs womb; and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. To him who can grasp, this is enough.

²⁸ There is neither Jew nor Syrian, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Jesus Christ.

¹⁴ For the whole law is fulfilled in one saying, that is; Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.

²⁰ If a man say, I love God, and yet hates his brother, he is a liar: for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

¹ JUDGE not, that you may not be judged.

⁸ Owe no man anything, but love one another: for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law, ⁹ Which says, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not covet; and if there is any other commandment, it is fulfilled in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. ¹⁰ Love does not work evil to his neighbor because love is the fulfillment of the law.

²⁹ Then Simon Peter with the rest of the apostles answered and said to them, We must obey God rather than men.

³² Knowing the judgment of God, that those who commit such things, he condemns to death, they not only do them, but also associate with those who practice them.

³ For the time will come when men will not listen to sound doctrine; but they will add for themselves extra teachers according to their desires, being lured by enticing words;

⁷ Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbouring cities which in like manner gave themselves over to fornication, and followed after other carnal lusts, are condemned to judgment and placed under everlasting fire;

²⁶ Therefore God has given them up to vile passions: for even their women have changed the natural use of their sex into that which is unnatural: ²⁷ And likewise also their men have left the natural use of the women and have run wild with lust toward one another, male with male committing shameful acts, and receiving in themselves the due recompense of their error. ²⁸ And as they did not consent in themselves to know God, God has given them over to a weak mind, to do the things which should not be done; as,

⁹ Do you not know that the wicked shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not misled: neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the corrupt, nor men who lie down with males, ¹⁰ Nor extortioners, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor grafters, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And some of these evils were to be found in some of you, but you have been cleansed, and have been sanctified, and made righteous in the name of our LORD Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God.