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Homosexuality

New King James Version (NKJV)

Scripture Reference · NKJV

Homosexuality

12 verses6 books5 themes

Homosexuality

What the Bible teaches about human sexuality, God's design, and redemption.

A study presenting the biblical passages that address homosexuality — God's design for sexuality, the biblical prohibitions, and the redemptive message of grace and transformation available to all people.

All Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Summary by Book

Old Testament

Genesis

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Genesis 1:27
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So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 2:24
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Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Leviticus

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Leviticus 18:22
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You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

Leviticus 20:13
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If a man lies with a male as he lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

New Testament

Romans

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Romans 1:24
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Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

Romans 1:26
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For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature.

Romans 1:27
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Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

1 Corinthians

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1 Corinthians 6:9
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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites.

1 Corinthians 6:10
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nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 6:11
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And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

1 Timothy

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1 Timothy 1:10
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for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.

Jude

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Jude 1:7
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as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Thematic Index

God's Design for Sexuality

Old Testament Prohibitions

New Testament Teaching

Redemption and Transformation

The Warning of Sodom

All Scripture quotations are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.