Lasciviousness
40 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
12 sections
Amnon
- 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. …
David
- 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.
- 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. …
Eli's Sons
- 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.
Figurative
- Ezekiel 16:15–59 But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking. …
General Scriptures Concerning
- 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.
- Proverbs 2:16–18 It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words …
- Proverbs 5:3–5 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil, …
- Proverbs 5:8–13 Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house, …
- Proverbs 7:6–27 For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. …
- Proverbs 9:13–18 The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing. …
- Proverbs 20:16 Take the garment of the one who posts security for a stranger; get collateral if it is for a foreigner.
- Proverbs 30:18–20 There are three things too wonderful for me, four that I cannot understand: …
- Joel 3:3 They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- Mark 7:21–23 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, …
- Romans 1:22–29 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, …
- Romans 7:8 But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
- Romans 13:13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, …
- 1 Corinthians 6:13 “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- 1 Corinthians 6:15–18 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! …
- 1 Corinthians 9:27 No, I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
- 2 Corinthians 12:21 I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
- Galatians 5:19–21 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; …
- Ephesians 4:17–19 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. …
- Ephesians 5:5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
- Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
- 2 Timothy 3:6 They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,
- 1 Peter 4:2–3 Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God. …
- Jude 4–7 For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed — ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. …
Judah
- Genesis 38:15–16 When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face. …
Lot's Daughters
- 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. …
Persian Kings
- 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 …
- Esther 2:13–14 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. …
- Esther 2:19 When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
Rehoboam
- 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. …
Sodomites
- 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!”
Solomon
- 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. …
The Gibeahites
- 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 …
Related topics
AdulteryHarlot (Prostitute)UriahSeduction of TamarSodom of Wickedness
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.