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Abraham did not thus. Ye do the deeds of your father. They said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

But that we write to them, to abstain from things offered to idols and fornication, and things strangled and blood.

and things strangled and fornication; from which keeping yourselves ye will do well. Fare ye well.

As touching the Gentiles that believe, we have written and determined, that they should observe no such thing; save only that they keep themselves from what is offered to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication.

It is commonly reported, that there is fornication among you, and such fornication, as is not even named among the heathens, that one should have his father's wife.

Meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats; yet God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doth, is without the body; but he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body.

Yet, to avoid 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 committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

and I should mourn over many of them who had sinned before, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication,

But let not fornication, or any uncleanness, or covetousness be even named among you, as becometh saints:

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about them, which in the same manner with these gave themselves over to fornication, and went after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

But I have a few things against thee, that thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.

But I have against thee, that thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, who callest herself a prophetess, and teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

And I gave her time to repent of her fornication; but she will not repent.

And another angel followed, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen; she that hath made all nations drink of the wine of her fornication.

With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.