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²²You shall not commit sexual acts with a male, in place of sexual intercourse with a female, for this is an abomination.

⁶But from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. ⁷Because of this, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife. ⁸And these two shall be one in flesh. And so, they are now, not two, but one flesh. ⁹Therefore, what God has joined together, let no man separate.”

¹³If any man has slept with a male in place of sexual intercourse with a female, both have committed a nefarious act, they shall die a death. So let their blood be upon them.

⁹Do you not know that the iniquitous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not choose to wander astray. For neither fornicators, nor servants of idolatry, nor adulterers, ¹⁰nor the effeminate, nor males who sleep with males, nor thieves, nor the avaricious, nor the inebriated, nor slanderers, nor the rapacious shall possess the kingdom of God. ¹¹And some of you were like this. But you have been absolved, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified: all in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

⁷And also Sodom and Gomorrah, and the adjoining cities, in similar ways, having given themselves over to fornication and to the pursuing of other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

²⁶Because of this, God handed them over to shameful passions. For example, their females have exchanged the natural use of the body for a use which is against nature. ²⁷And similarly, the males also, abandoning the natural use of females, have burned in their desires for one another: males doing with males what is disgraceful, and receiving within themselves the recompense that necessarily results from their error. ²⁸And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting:

¹Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called as an Apostle, separated for the Gospel of God, ²which he had promised beforehand, through his Prophets, in the Holy Scriptures, ³about his Son, who was made for him from the offspring of David according to the flesh, ⁴the Son of God, who was predestined in virtue according to the Spirit of sanctification from the resurrection of the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁵through whom we have received grace and Apostleship, for the sake of his name, for the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, ⁶from whom you also have been called by Jesus Christ:

⁸You should owe nothing to anyone, except so as to love one another. For whoever loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. ⁹For example: You shall not commit adultery. You shall not kill. You shall not steal. You shall not speak false testimony. You shall not covet. And if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this word: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁰The love of neighbor does no harm. Therefore, love is the plenitude of the law.

²⁴For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.

¹²There is one lawgiver and one judge. He is able to destroy, and he is able to set free.

⁷And then, when they persevered in questioning him, he stood upright and said to them, “Let whoever is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.” ⁸And bending down again, he wrote on the earth. ⁹But upon hearing this, they went away, one by one, beginning with the eldest. And Jesus alone remained, with the woman standing in front of him. ¹⁰Then Jesus, raising himself up, said to her: “Woman, where are those who accused you? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹And she said, “No one, Lord.” Then Jesus said: “Neither will I condemn you. Go, and now do not choose to sin anymore.”

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁴For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

⁸But we know that the law is good, if one makes use of it properly. ⁹Knowing this, that the law was not set in place for the just, but for the unjust and the insubordinate, for the impious and sinners, for the wicked and the defiled, for those who commit patricide, matricide, or homicide, ¹⁰for fornicators, for males who sleep with males, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, ¹¹which is in accord with the Gospel of the glory of the blessed God, the Gospel which has been entrusted to me.

²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither servant nor free; there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

³⁹But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

⁷For I would prefer it if you were all like myself. But each person has his proper gift from God: one in this way, yet another in that way. ⁸But I say to the unmarried and to widows: It is good for them, if they would remain as they are, just as I also am. ⁹But if they cannot restrain themselves, they should marry. For it is better to marry, than to be burned.

¹⁷And so, I say this, and I testify in the Lord: that from now on you should walk, not as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts. ¹⁹Such as these, despairing, have given themselves over to sexual immorality, carrying out every impurity with rapacity. ²⁰But this is not what you have learned in Christ. ²¹For certainly, you have listened to him, and you have been instructed in him, according to the truth that is in Jesus: ²²to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error,

¹²Therefore, all things whatsoever that you wish that men would do to you, do so also to them. For this is the law and the prophets.

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him, in order to make known to his servants the things that must soon occur, and which he signified by sending his Angel to his servant John;