So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God he
created him; male and female he
created them.
(Genesis 1:27)
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And God blessed them. And God said
to them, “Be fruitful and multiply
and fill the earth and subdue it
and have dominion over the fish of
the sea and over the birds of the
heavens and over every living
thing that moves on the earth.”
(Genesis 1:28)
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Then the Lord
God said, “It is not good that the
man should be alone; I will make
him a helper fit for him.” Now out
of the ground the
Lord God had formed every
beast of the field and every bird
of the heavens and brought them to
the man to see what he would call
them. And whatever the man called
every living creature, that was
its name. The man gave names to
all livestock and to the birds of
the heavens and to every beast of
the field. But for Adam there was
not found a helper fit for him. So
the Lord
God caused a deep sleep to fall
upon the man, and while he slept
took one of his ribs and closed up
its place with flesh. And the rib
that the Lord
God had taken from the man he made
into a woman and brought her to
the man. ...
(Genesis 2:18-25)
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Therefore a man shall leave his
father and his mother and hold
fast to his wife, and they shall
become one flesh.
(Genesis 2:24)
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But I say to you that everyone who
looks at a woman with lustful
intent has already committed
adultery with her in his heart.
(Matthew 5:28)
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He answered, “Have you not read
that he who created them from the
beginning made them male and
female,
(Matthew 19:4)
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And I say to you: whoever divorces
his wife, except for sexual
immorality, and marries another,
commits adultery.”
(Matthew 19:9)
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But from the beginning of
creation, ‘God made them male and
female.’
(Mark 10:6)
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For this reason God gave them up
to dishonorable passions. For
their women exchanged natural
relations for those that are
contrary to nature; and the men
likewise gave up natural relations
with women and were consumed with
passion for one another, men
committing shameless acts with men
and receiving in themselves the
due penalty for their error.
(Romans 1:26,27)
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Or do you not know that the
unrighteous will not inherit the
kingdom of God? Do not be
deceived: neither the sexually
immoral, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor men who practice
homosexuality, nor thieves, nor
the greedy, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor swindlers will
inherit the kingdom of God.
(1 Corinthians 6:9,10)
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Do not be unequally yoked with
unbelievers. For what partnership
has righteousness with
lawlessness? Or what fellowship
has light with darkness?
(2 Corinthians 6:14)
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Now the works of the flesh are
evident: sexual immorality,
impurity, sensuality, idolatry,
sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy,
fits of anger, rivalries,
dissensions, divisions, envy,
drunkenness, orgies, and things
like these. I warn you, as I
warned you before, that those who
do such things will not inherit
the kingdom of God.
(Galatians 5:19-21)
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But sexual immorality and all
impurity or covetousness must not
even be named among you, as is
proper among saints.
(Ephesians 5:3)
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Let marriage be held in honor
among all, and let the marriage
bed be undefiled, for God will
judge the sexually immoral and
adulterous.
(Hebrews 13:4)
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