Bible Verses about โhomosexualsโ
The Bible contains 36 verses about homosexuals across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โenvyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.โ
โNow the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,โ
โidolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,โ
โOr don't you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don't be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,โ
โBut the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,โ
โnor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortioners, will inherit the Kingdom of God.โ
โOwe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.โ
โTherefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.โ
โgentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.โ
โSuch were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.โ
โFor the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."โ
โLove doesn't harm a neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.โ
โBut I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.โ
โLikewise also the men, leaving the natural function of the woman, burned in their lust toward one another, men doing what is inappropriate with men, and receiving in themselves the due penalty of their error.โ
โFor this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.โ
โ"'You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.โ
โ"'If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.โ
โThose who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.โ
โEven as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;โ
โFor there are eunuchs who were born that way from their mother's womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men; and there are eunuchs who made themselves eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven's sake. He who is able to receive it, let him receive it."โ
โFor the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.โ
โcovetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.โ
โFor from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,โ
โwho exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.โ
โA second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'โ
โTherefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,โ
โIf we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.โ
โand traded the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed animals, and creeping things.โ
โBut if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.โ
โHe said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.โ
โAll these evil things come from within, and defile the man."โ
โFor the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."โ
โBut he said to them, "Not all men can receive this saying, but those to whom it is given.โ
โFor thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:โ
โto them I will give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.โ
โNeither let the foreigner, who has joined himself to Yahweh, speak, saying, "Yahweh will surely separate me from his people;" neither let the eunuch say, "Behold, I am a dry tree."โ
