Old testament gay verse

13 “‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. (A) They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Cross references

Leviticus 19 Leviticus 21 Deuteronomy 23:18 New International Version

18 You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute [a] into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both. (A)

Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 23:18 Hebrew of a dog

Cross references

Deuteronomy 22 Deuteronomy 24 Romans 1:27 New International Version

27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. (A)

Cross references

1 Corinthians 6:9 New International Version

9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? (A) Do not be deceived: (B) Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers (C) nor men who have sex with men [a] (D)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.

Cross references

  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 : S Mt 25:34
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 : Job 13:9; 1Co 15:33; Gal 6:7; Jas 1:16
  3. 1 Corinthians 6:9 : Lev 18:20; Dt 22:22
  4. 1 Corinthians 6:9 : Lev 18:22
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