Matthew 15:7-20 “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. . . .” (Also: Mark 7:14-23)

1st John 3:15 “Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer. . . .” [The Lord looks on the heart.]

Fornication (Sex outside of marriage.)

2nd Samuel 13:1-15 [Amnon’s wickedness against Tamar.] (This was not love, but lust; and it led to hatred and death.)

Acts 15:20 “. . . we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication. . . .”

Romans 1:18 — 2:11 “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, [etc.] . . . who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”

1st Corinthians 5:(all) “It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you. . . . Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.”

6:9-20 “Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”

Genesis 39:1-12 “And . . . he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out.”

Proverbs 2:10-19 “For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.”

5:1-13 “. . . her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood. . . .”

7:1-27 “He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter. . . .”

9:13-18 “. . . she saith . . . Stolen waters are sweet . . . But he knoweth not that . . . her guests are in the depths of hell.”

20:17 “Bread of deceit is sweet to a man: but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.”

Job 31:1-12 “For this is an heinous crime; yea, it is an iniquity to be punished by the judges.”

1st Corinthians 7:1-9 “But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.”

(Proverbs 18:22 “Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.”)

(Genesis 29:20 “And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.”)

(5:18-19 “. . . rejoice with the wife of thy youth. . . . let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.)

1st Corinthians 10:8,12-13 “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. . . .”

Galatians 5:19-25 “Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness. . . .”

Romans 8:1-12 “Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.”

2nd Corinthians 12:20-21 “For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would . . . and that I shall bewail many which . . . have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.”

Ephesians 5:1-11 “But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you. . . .”

1st Thessalonians 4:1-8 “For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour. . . .”

Jude 1-8 “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Hebrews 12:14-29 “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord. . . . For our God is a consuming fire.”

Adultery, A Certain Type of Fornication

Exodus 20:14 “Thou shalt not commit adultery.”

Matthew 5:17-18 “Think not that I am come to destroy the law. . . .”

v. 27-28 “. . . whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.”

Matthew 5:32 “But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”

19:9 “And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.”