Bible verses about "homosexuals" | Moffatt

⁷ but as they persisted with their question, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent among you throw the first stone at her"; ⁸ then he stooped down again and wrote on the ground. ⁹ And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰ Looking up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" ¹¹ She said, "No one, sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I; be off, and never sin again."]

³⁹ There is a second like it: you must love your neighbour as yourself.

¹⁶ I mean, lead the life of the Spirit; then you will never satisfy the passions of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the passion of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the passion of the Spirit against the flesh — the two are at issue, so that you are not free to do as you please. ¹⁸ If you are under the sway of the Spirit, you are not under the Law. ¹⁹ Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality, ²⁰ idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit, ²¹ envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God. ²² But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity, ²³ gentleness, self-control: — there is no law against those who practise such things. ²⁴ Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its emotions and passions. ²⁵ As we live by the Spirit, let us be guided by the Spirit;

¹¹ He said to them, "True, but this truth is not practicable for everyone, it is only for those who have the gift. ¹² There are eunuchs who have been eunuchs from their birth, there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the sake of the Realm of heaven. Let anyone practice it for whom it is practicable."

⁸ Be in debt to no man — apart from the debt of love one to another. He who loves his fellow-man has fulfilled the law. ⁹ You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not covet — these and any other command are summed up in a single word, You must love your neighbour as yourself. ¹⁰ Love never wrongs a neighbour; that is why love is the fulfilment of the law.

¹⁴ For the entire Law is summed up in one word, in You must love your neighbour as yourself

¹² Well then, whatever you would like men to do to you, do just the same to them; that is the meaning of the Law and the prophets.

²⁰ "No," he said, "it is what comes from a man, that is what defiles him. ²¹ From within, from the heart of man, the designs of evil come: sexual vice, stealing, murder, ²² adultery, lust, malice, deceit, sensuality, envying, slander, arrogance, recklessness, ²³ all these evils issue from within and they defile a man."

⁹ What! do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the Realm of God? Make no mistake about it; neither the immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor catamites nor sodomites ¹⁰ nor thieves nor the lustful nor the drunken nor the abusive nor robbers will inherit the Realm of God. ¹¹ Some of you were once like that; but you washed yourselves clean, you were consecrated, you were justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

²³ they have exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the semblance of the likeness of mortal man, of birds, of quadrupeds, and of reptiles. ²⁴ So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, — ²⁵ since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen. ²⁶ That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural, ²⁷ and in the same way the males have abandoned the natural use of women and flamed out in lust for one another, men perpetrating shameless acts with their own sex and getting in their own persons the due recompense of their perversity. ²⁸ Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,