17 “There shall be no ritual [a]harlot (A)of the daughters of Israel, or a (B)perverted[b] one of the sons of Israel.

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  1. Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qedeshah, fem. of qadesh (next note)
  2. Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

17 No Israelite man(A) or woman is to become a shrine prostitute.(B)

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Then he tore down the ritual [a]booths (A)of the [b]perverted persons that were in the house of the Lord, (B)where the (C)women wove hangings for the wooden image.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:7 Lit. houses
  2. 2 Kings 23:7 Heb. qedeshim, those practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

He also tore down the quarters of the male shrine prostitutes(A) that were in the temple of the Lord, the quarters where women did weaving for Asherah.

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29 (A)‘Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

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29 “‘Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute,(A) or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.(B)

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24 (A)And there were also [a]perverted persons in the land. They did according to all the (B)abominations of the nations which the Lord had cast out before the children of (C)Israel.

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  1. 1 Kings 14:24 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

24 There were even male shrine prostitutes(A) in the land; the people engaged in all the detestable(B) practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

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10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is [a]contrary to sound doctrine,

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  1. 1 Timothy 1:10 opposed

10 for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine(A)

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46 (A)And the rest of the [a]perverted persons, who remained in the days of his father Asa, he banished from the land.

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  1. 1 Kings 22:46 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

46 He rid the land of the rest of the male shrine prostitutes(A) who remained there even after the reign of his father Asa.

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12 (A)And he banished the [a]perverted persons from the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

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  1. 1 Kings 15:12 Heb. qedeshim, those practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals

12 He expelled the male shrine prostitutes(A) from the land and got rid of all the idols(B) his ancestors had made.

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21 then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with (A)stones, because she has (B)done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to play the harlot in her father’s house. (C)So you shall [a]put away the evil from among you.

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  1. Deuteronomy 22:21 purge the evil person

21 she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing(A) in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.

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Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. (A)Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor [a]homosexuals, nor [b]sodomites,

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 catamites, those submitting to homosexuals
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 male homosexuals

Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?(A) Do not be deceived:(B) Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers(C) nor men who have sex with men[a](D)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.

26 For this reason God gave them up to (A)vile passions. For even their [a]women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the [b]men, leaving the natural use of the [c]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.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things (B)which are not fitting;

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  1. Romans 1:26 Lit. females
  2. Romans 1:27 Lit. males
  3. Romans 1:27 Lit. female

26 Because of this, God gave them over(A) to shameful lusts.(B) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.(C) 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.(D)

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over(E) to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

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16 To deliver you from (A)the immoral woman,
(B)From the seductress who flatters with her words,

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16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

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Gibeah’s Crime

22 As they were (A)enjoying themselves, suddenly (B)certain men of the city, (C)perverted[a] men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, (D)“Bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally!

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  1. Judges 19:22 Lit. sons of Belial

22 While they were enjoying themselves,(A) some of the wicked men(B) of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.(C)

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Now before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all the people from every quarter, surrounded the house. (A)And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? (B)Bring them out to us that we (C)may know them carnally.

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Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom(A)—both young and old—surrounded the house. They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”(B)

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