Lasciviousness

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerning Jude 1:4-7Exodus 32:6Proverbs 2:16–18Proverbs 5:3–5Proverbs 5:8–13Proverbs 7:6–27Proverbs 9:13–18Proverbs 20:16Proverbs 30:18–20Joel 3:3Mark 7:21–23Romans 1:22–29Romans 7:8Romans 13:131 Corinthians 6:91 Corinthians 6:101 Corinthians 6:131 Corinthians 6:15–181 Corinthians 9:272 Corinthians 12:21Galatians 5:19–21
• See Adultery
• See Idolatry, Licentious Practices of
• See Incest
• See Lust
• See Rape
• See Sensuality
• See Sodomy
• See Whore
• See Whoredom
• FIGURATIVEEzekiel 16:15–59
• See Whoredoms

The passages, in Bible order (43)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 19:5

   They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”

   ›Commentary on Genesis 19:52 voices

   “And they called unto Lot,....

   “Where are the men which came in to thee, etc. - This account justifies the character given of this depraved people in the preceding chapter, Gen 18:20, and in Gen 23:13. As their crime was the deepest disgrace to human nature, so it is too bad to be described; in the sacred text it is sufficiently marked; and the iniquity which, from these most abominable wretches, has been called Sodomy, is punished in our country with death.

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2. Genesis 19:30–38

   Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 19:30–382 voices

   “(Verse 30.) And Lot went up from Segor and settled in the mountain, and his two daughters with him. For he was afraid to stay in Segor. It is asked why, when he first preferred the mountain of Segor for his escape, and wanted to be saved in it as his dwelling, he now flees from Segor back to the mountain?

   “And Lot went up out of Zoar,....

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3. Genesis 38:15

   When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

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   “While Tamar was making supplication to God for these things, behold, Judah came out and saw her. The prayer of Tamar inclined him, contrary to his usual habit, [to go] to a harlot. When she saw him, she was veiled, for she was afraid. After …

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4. Genesis 38:16

   Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.

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   “And he turned unto her by the way,....

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5. Exodus 32:6

   So the next day they arose, offered burnt offerings, and presented peace offerings. And the people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to indulge in revelry.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 32:61 voice

   “But he who has engulfed and plunged himself in such wallowing places, falls also into the snare of unbelief; for the people sat down to eat and to drink, and required that gods should be made for them. Hereby the Lord teaches us that he who gives up his soul to these two kinds of vices, is stript of the garment, not of a woollen vest, but of living virtue; that clothing which is not temporal but eternal.

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6. Judges 19:22–25

   While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”

   ›Commentary on Judges 19:22–251 voice

   “The old man kept urging them to be glad and kept inviting them to drink more wine so that they would forget their cares, when all of a sudden they were surrounded by young men of Gaba [Gibeah], given to lust, all lacking esteem for moderation. The woman's beauty had bewitched them and thrown them into utter folly. They were captivated by her beauty and, because of the old man's age and lack of help, with high hope of getting her, they demanded the woman and kept pounding at the door.

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7. 1 Samuel 2:22

   Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 2:221 voice

   “Because their father [Eli] did not chastise them with enough severity … he moved the forbearance of God to wrath so great that foreign peoples rose up against them and killed those sons of his in war in one day. His entire nation, furthermore, was vanquished, and a considerable number of his people fell.

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8. 2 Samuel 5:13

   After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 5:131 voice

   “And David took him more concubines and wives out of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron,.... He had six when he was at Hebron, 2Sa 3:2, and now he took more, which was not to his honour, and contrary to the law of God, Deu 17:17; the concubines were a sort of half wives, as the word may signify, or secondary ones, and under the others: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David; besides those in Hebron mentioned in 2Sa 3:2.

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9. 2 Samuel 11:2–27

   One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

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   “We have taken up the task of writing an apology for the present style of the prophet David, not because he needs this gift, who has excelled in such great merits and flourished in virtues, but because many people, reading the sequence of his deeds without considering the power of the Scriptures or the hidden mysteries, wonder how such a great prophet did not avoid the contagion of adultery first and then of murder. Therefore, it was our desire to review the history itself, which seems to have been exposed to sin.

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10. 2 Samuel 13:1–14

    After some time, David’s son Amnon fell in love with Tamar, the beautiful sister of David’s son Absalom.

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    “And it came to pass after this,....

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11. 1 Kings 11:1–3

    King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.

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    “In the previous chapters the Scripture related the marriage of Solomon with the daughter of Pharaoh and did not rebuke him because she was the one wife only who did not secretly practice the religion of her homeland and was no reason of offense for …

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12. 2 Chronicles 11:21–23

    Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

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    “And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines, &c. Who is called Michaiah, the daughter of Uriel, 2Ch 13:2, for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines; led thereunto by the example of his father Solomon, contrary to the command of God, Deu 17:17. and begat twenty eight sons and sixty daughters; to have many children was reckoned a great blessing, but it was not honourable to have them in such a way.

    “Eighteen wives and threescore concubines - Bad enough, but not so abandoned as his father. Of these marriages and concubinage the issue was twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters; eighty-eight children in the whole, to the education of the whole of whom he could pay but little attention. Numerous families are often neglected; and children by different women, must be yet in a worse state.

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13. Esther 2:3

    and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.

    ›Commentary on Esther 2:32 voices

    “And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom,....

    The worldly philosophers drive out an old passion by instilling a new one; they hammer out one nail by hammering in another. It was on this principle that the seven princes of Persia acted toward Ahasuerus, for they subdued his regret for Vashti by inducing him to love other maidens. But whereas they cured one fault by another fault and one sin by another sin, we must overcome our faults by learning to love the opposite virtues. "Depart from evil," says the psalmist, "and do good; seek peace and pursue it."

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14. Esther 2:13

    When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

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    “For any soul that strives to hurry to the bed of the heavenly Groom receives from its teachers the adornment that is appropriate to it, and with which it shows itself more devoted to the understanding of the faith and the knowledge of virtue, so …

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15. Esther 2:14

    She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.

    ›Commentary on Esther 2:141 voice

    “What then follows—"She would enter in the evening and leave in the morning, and was then brought to the second building"—and so on, proves in an allegorical way that after our vices have subsided, the glow of our virtues (which will not shine properly anywhere …

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16. Esther 2:19

    When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

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    “Virgins are being sought for the king a second time and gathered together, because it was not enough for our Lord Jesus Christ to associate himself exclusively with the Jewish members of the early Church; rather he also acquired through his preachers copious numbers of …

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