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¹⁷There shall be no prostitutes among the daughters of Israel, nor anyone among the sons of Israel who visits a prostitute. ¹⁸You shall not offer money from a prostitute, nor the price of a dog, in the house of the Lord your God, no matter what you may have vowed. For both of these are an abomination with the Lord your God.

²⁴So may they guard you from an evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the outsider. ²⁵Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks. ²⁶For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.

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.

²⁷You have heard that it was said to the ancients: ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ²⁸But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

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.

²⁴And behold, after three months, they reported to Judah, saying, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has committed fornication and her abdomen appears to be enlarged.” And Judah said, “Produce her, so that she may be burned.”

¹⁵Do you not know that your bodies are a part of Christ? So then, should I take a part of Christ and make it a part of a harlot? Let it not be so!

¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, ²⁰the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, ²¹envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.

²⁴Moreover, the effeminate were in the land, and they committed all the abominations of the peoples that the Lord had destroyed before the face of the sons of Israel.

¹⁴But a widow, or one who has been repudiated or defiled, or also a mistress, he shall not accept, but only a maiden from among his own people.

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: ²⁹having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping; ³⁰slanderous, hateful toward God, abusive, arrogant, self-exalting, devisers of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹foolish, disorderly; without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.

³²But whoever is an adulterer, because of the emptiness of his heart, will destroy his own soul. ³³He gathers shame and dishonor to himself, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.

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.

¹But Jesus continued on to the Mount of Olives. ²And early in the morning, he went again to the temple; and all the people came to him. And sitting down, he taught them. ³Now the scribes and Pharisees brought forward a woman caught in adultery, and they stood her in front of them. ⁴And they said to him: “Teacher, this woman was just now caught in adultery. ⁵And in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such a one. Therefore, what do you say?” ⁶But they were saying this to test him, so that they might be able to accuse him. Then Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the earth.