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They will not set their thoughts to return to their God: for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

Rejoice not, O Israel: rejoice not as the nations do: for thou hast committed fornication against thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.

You do the works of your father. They said therefore to him: We are not born of fornication: we have one Father, even God.

But that we write unto them, that they refrain themselves from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.

That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication: from which things keeping yourselves, you shall do well. Fare ye well.

But, as touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written, decreeing that they should only refrain themselves from that which has been offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication.

Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness: full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity: whisperers,

It is absolutely heard that there is fornication among you and such fornication as the like is not among the heathens: that one should have his father’s wife.

Meat for the belly and the belly for the meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord: and the Lord for the body.

Fly fornication. Every sin that a man doth is without the body: but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Lest again, when I come, God humble me among you: and I mourn many of them that sinned before and have not done penance for the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness that they have committed.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest: which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury,

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not so much as be named among you, as becometh saints:

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, lust, evil concupiscence and covetousness, which is the service of idols.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication:

As Sodom and Gomorrha and the neighbouring cities, in like manner, having given themselves to fornication and going after other flesh, were made an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.