There are people who feel fornication is ok. What’s worse, many claim to be believers in Jesus Christ. But what did God say?

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Ephesians 5:5 CSB “For know and recognize this: EVERY SEXUALLY IMMORAL or impure or greedy PERSON, WHO IS AN IDOLATER, DOES NOT HAVE AN INHERITANCE in the kingdom of Christ and of God.”

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 LEB “Or do you not know that THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD? DO NOT BE DECEIVED! Neither SEXUALLY IMMORAL PEOPLE, nor IDOLATERS, nor ADULTERERS, nor passive HOMOSEXUAL PARTNERS, nor dominant homosexual partners, 10 nor thieves, nor greedy persons, not drunkards, not abusive persons, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

Hebrews 12:16 ESV “That no one is SEXUALLY IMMORAL or UNHOLY LIKE ESAU, who SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT for a single meal.”

Hebrews 13:4 GNT “Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. GOD WILL JUDGE those who are IMMORAL and those WHO COMMIT ADULTERY.”

Matthew 5:27-28 MEV “You have heard that it was said by the ancients, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that WHOEVER LOOKS ON A WOMAN TO LUST AFTER HER HAS COMMITTED ADULTERY with her already in his heart.”

Psalm 101:3-4 NASB “I will set NO WORTHLESS THING BEFORE MY EYES; I hate the work of those who fall away; It shall not fasten its grip on me. A perverse heart shall depart from me; I will know NO EVIL.”

Revelation 21:8 MEV “But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, THE SEXUALLY IMMORAL, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This is THE SECOND DEATH.”

1 CORINTHIANS 10:8 CSB “Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and IN A SINGLE DAY TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE DIED.”

Galatians 6:1 BSB “Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should RESTORE HIM WITH A SPIRIT OF GENTLENESS. But watch yourself, or you also may be tempted.”

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IF ONE CLAIMING TO FOLLOW CHRIST REFUSES TO REPENT OF FORNICATION THE NEXT PASSAGE MUST BE OBEYED

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1 Corinthians 5:11-13 MEV “But I have written to you NOT TO KEEP COMPANY WITH ANY MAN WHO IS CALLED A BROTHER, WHO IS SEXUALLY IMMORAL, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. DO NOT EVEN EAT WITH SUCH A PERSON. For what have I to do with judging those also who are outside? Do you not JUDGE THOSE WHO ARE INSIDE? But God judges those who are outside. Therefore “PUT AWAY FROM AMONG YOURSELVES THAT WICKED PERSON.”

These are tough decisions the church must make. The purpose behind removing the unrepentant sinner was not to damn them forever. But to keep the rest of the church pure. And to hopefully wake up the wrongdoer before it’s too late. Godly discipline has love as its aim. Love for the church and for the offender. 1 Corinthians chapter 5 brings this out. There was a man in the church who was having sex with his father’s wife. This had to be properly dealt with. Paul encouraged the brethren to remove this person from their midst. Later under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, Paul instructed the church to forgive the man:

2 Corinthians 2:5-11 CSB “If anyone has caused pain, he has caused pain not so much to me but to some degree—not to exaggerate—to all of you. ⁶ This punishment by the majority is sufficient for that person. ⁷ As a result, you should instead FORGIVE AND COMFORT HIM. Otherwise, HE MAY BE OVERWHELMED BY EXCESSIVE GRIEF. ⁸ Therefore I urge you to REAFFIRM YOUR LOVE TO HIM. ⁹ I wrote for this purpose: to test your character to see if you are obedient in everything. ¹⁰ Anyone you FORGIVE, I do too. For what I have forgiven—if I have forgiven anything—it is for your benefit in the presence of Christ, ¹¹ so that we may not be taken advantage of by Satan. For we are not ignorant of his schemes.”

God’s love and mercy is awesome, isn’t it? 

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Jude 1:4 MEV “’For there are SOME MEN WHO SECRETLY CREPT IN, who were MARKED long ago FOR THIS CONDEMNATION. They are ungodly men, WHO PERVERT THE GRACE OF OUR GOD INTO IMMORALITY and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Hebrews 10:26-29 CSB “For IF WE DELIBERATELY GO ON SINNING after receiving the knowledge of the truth, THERE NO LONGER REMAINS A SACRIFICE FOR SINS, 27 BUT A TERRIFYING EXPECTATION OF JUDGMENT and THE FURY OF A FIRE about to consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who disregarded the law of Moses died without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 HOW MUCH WORSE PUNISHMENT do you think ONE WILL DESERVE who has trampled on the Son of God, WHO HAS REGARDED AS PROFANE THE BLOOD of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and WHO HAS INSULTED THE SPIRIT OF GRACE?”

1 Corinthians 6:15-20 MEV “Do you not know that YOUR BODIES ARE THE PARTS OF CHRIST? Shall I then take the parts of Christ and make them the parts of a harlot? God forbid! What? Do you not know that he who is joined to a harlot is one body with her? For “the two,” He says, “shall become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes ONE SPIRIT WITH HIM. ESCAPE FROM SEXUAL IMMORALITY. Every sin that a man commits is outside the body. But he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. What? Do you not know that YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, who is in you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own? YOU WERE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE. Therefore GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY and in your spirit, which are God’s.”

1 John 1:9-10 ESV ”If we CONFESS OUR SINS, he is faithful and just to FORGIVE US OUR SINS and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.”

Proverbs 28:13 NIV “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who CONFESSES AND RENOUNCES THEM FINDS MERCY.”

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