Ephesians 4:19
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19 They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
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1 Timothy 4:2
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2 through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
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Colossians 3:5
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5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).(A)
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Romans 1:24-26
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24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves.(A) 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.(B)
26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their females exchanged natural intercourse[a] for unnatural,(C)
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Revelation 18:3
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3 For all the nations have fallen[a]
from the wine of the wrath of her prostitution,
and the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[b] with her,
and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power[c] of her luxury.”(A)
2 Peter 2:22
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22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb,
“The dog turns back to its own vomit,”
and,
“The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”(A)
Jude 11
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11 Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.(A)
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2 Peter 2:12-14
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12 These people, however, are like irrational animals, mere creatures of instinct, born to be caught and killed. They slander what they do not understand, and as those creatures are destroyed,[a] they also will be destroyed, 13 suffering[b] the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures[c] while they feast with you.(A) 14 They have eyes full of adultery,[d] insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!
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1 Peter 4:3
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3 You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.(A)
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Ephesians 4:17
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The Old Life and the New
17 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the[a] gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;(A)
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Isaiah 56:11
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11 The dogs have a mighty appetite;
they never have enough.
The shepherds also have no understanding;
they have all turned to their own way,
to their own gain, one and all.
Job 15:16
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16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt,
one who drinks iniquity like water!(A)
Revelation 17:1-6
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The Great Whore and the Beast
17 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great whore[a] who is seated on many waters,(A) 2 with whom the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality[b] and with the wine of whose prostitution the inhabitants of the earth have become drunk.”(B) 3 So he carried me away in the spirit[c] into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.(C) 4 The woman was clothed in purple and scarlet and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her prostitution,(D) 5 and on her forehead was written a name, a mystery: “Babylon the great, mother[d] of whores[e] and of earth’s abominations.”(E) 6 And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the witnesses to Jesus.
When I saw her, I was greatly amazed.(F)
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