He does not eat at the mountain(A) shrines
    or look to the idols(B) of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife
    or have sexual relations with a woman during her period.(C)

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15 “He does not eat at the mountain shrines(A)
    or look to the idols(B) of Israel.
He does not defile his neighbor’s wife.

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19 And when you look up to the sky and see the sun,(A) the moon and the stars(B)—all the heavenly array(C)—do not be enticed(D) into bowing down to them and worshiping(E) things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven.

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In you are slanderers(A) who are bent on shedding blood;(B) in you are those who eat at the mountain shrines(C) and commit lewd acts.(D) 10 In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed;(E) in you are those who violate women during their period,(F) when they are ceremonially unclean.(G) 11 In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife,(H) another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law,(I) and another violates his sister,(J) his own father’s daughter.(K)

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24 because they had not obeyed my laws but had rejected my decrees(A) and desecrated my Sabbaths,(B) and their eyes lusted after(C) their parents’ idols.(D)

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11 (though the father has done none of them):

“He eats at the mountain shrines.(A)
He defiles his neighbor’s wife.
12 He oppresses the poor(B) and needy.
He commits robbery.
He does not return what he took in pledge.(C)
He looks to the idols.
He does detestable things.(D)

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13 And they will know that I am the Lord, when their people lie slain among their idols(A) around their altars, on every high hill and on all the mountaintops, under every spreading tree and every leafy oak(B)—places where they offered fragrant incense to all their idols.(C)

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who invited them to the sacrifices(A) to their gods.(B) The people ate the sacrificial meal and bowed down before these gods.

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18 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a woman during her monthly period,(A) he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has also uncovered it. Both of them are to be cut off from their people.(B)

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10 “‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife(A)—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.(B)

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Marriage should be honored by all,(A) and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.(B)

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19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality,(A) impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.(B) I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.(C)

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20 No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons,(A) not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons.

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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) 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers(E) will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were.(F) But you were washed,(G) you were sanctified,(H) you were justified(I) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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Footnotes

  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.

28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(A)

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25 Therefore say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Since you eat(A) meat with the blood(B) still in it and look to your idols and shed blood, should you then possess the land?(C) 26 You rely on your sword, you do detestable things,(D) and each of you defiles his neighbor’s wife.(E) Should you then possess the land?’

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28 When I brought them into the land(A) I had sworn to give them and they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, made offerings that aroused my anger, presented their fragrant incense and poured out their drink offerings.(B)

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And I said to them, “Each of you, get rid of the vile images(A) you have set your eyes on, and do not defile yourselves with the idols(B) of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.(C)

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They are well-fed, lusty stallions,
    each neighing for another man’s wife.(A)
Should I not punish them for this?”(B)
    declares the Lord.
“Should I not avenge(C) myself
    on such a nation as this?

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Psalm 123

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to you,
    to you who sit enthroned(A) in heaven.
As the eyes of slaves look to the hand of their master,
    as the eyes of a female slave look to the hand of her mistress,
so our eyes look to the Lord(B) our God,
    till he shows us his mercy.

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Psalm 121

A song of ascents.

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
    where does my help come from?

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22 If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept(A) with her and the woman must die.(B) You must purge the evil from Israel.

23 If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, 24 you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.(C)

25 But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. 26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, 27 for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed,(D) there was no one to rescue her.

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered,(E) 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

30 A man is not to marry his father’s wife; he must not dishonor his father’s bed.[b](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 22:29 That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams
  2. Deuteronomy 22:30 In Hebrew texts this verse (22:30) is numbered 23:1.

19 “‘Do not approach a woman to have sexual relations during the uncleanness(A) of her monthly period.(B)

20 “‘Do not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife(C) and defile yourself with her.

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15 “Be careful not to make a treaty(A) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute(B) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.(C)

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