Works of the flesh
- Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)
Strife
- A perverse man sows strife... (Proverbs 16:28)
- But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. And a servant of the Lord must not quarrel… (2 Timothy 2:23-25)
Lying
- You shall not lie, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. (Leviticus 19:11)
- Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord … (Proverbs 12:22)
Adultery
- Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; He who does so destroys his own soul. (Proverbs 6:32)
- You have heard that it was said to those of old, “You shall not commit adultery.” But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. (Matthew 5:27-28)
- Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Hebrews 13:4)
Fornication
- For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders . . . (Mark 7:20-21)
- Now the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord . . . (1 Corinthians 6:13-16)
- For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. (Ephesians 5:5)
Sexual immorality
- Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. (1 Corinthians 6:18-20)
- For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality… (1 Thessalonians 4:3-5)
- . . . 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. (Jude 1:7)
Witchcraft and sorcery
- For rebellion is the sin of witchcraft… (1 Samuel 15:23)
- There shall not be found among you anyone who… practices witchcraft, or is a soothsayer, or is one who interprets omens, or is a sorcerer, or is one who conjures spells, or is a medium, or is a spiritist, or is one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord... (Deuteronomy 18:10-12)
- Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery . . . sorcery, hatred, contentions . . . (Galatians 5:19-21)
We believe that any form of sexual immorality, such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality, bisexual conduct, bestiality, incest, pornography, pedophilia, any attempt to change one’s gender or appear as the opposite gender, or disagreement with one’s biological gender, is sin, offensive, an abomination, and detestable to God. Hence, this Church opposes any such sexual immorality. (Leviticus 20:10-20)
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