Unlawful Sexual Relations
(Matthew 5:27–30)
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: I am the LORD your God. Exo 6:7Lev 11:44Ezk 20:5Lev 20:7Exo 20:2Ezk 20:19-20Ezk 20:7Gen 17:7 You must not follow the practices of the land of Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not follow the practices of the land of Canaan, into which I am bringing you. You must not walk in their customs. Exo 23:24Lev 20:231Pe 4:2-4Ezk 20:7-8Ezk 23:8Deu 12:30-31Deu 12:4Eph 5:7-11
You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God. Ezk 20:19Lev 18:2Deu 6:1Ezk 36:27Jhn 15:14Lev 18:26Lev 19:37Lev 20:22 Keep My statutes and My judgments, for the man who does these things will live by them. 1 I am the LORD. Gal 3:12Ezk 20:11Rom 10:5Ezk 20:13Ezk 20:21Luk 10:28Exo 6:2Exo 6:6
None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. 2 I am the LORD. Lev 20:17-21Lev 18:7-19Lev 20:11-12
You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her. Lev 20:11Ezk 22:10Lev 18:8-16Lev 20:14
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s wife; it would dishonor your father. Lev 20:111Co 5:1Deu 22:30Deu 27:20Amo 2:7Gen 49:42Sa 16:21-22Ezk 22:10
You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your father’s daughter or your mother’s daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere. Lev 20:17Deu 27:22Ezk 22:112Sa 13:11-14Lev 18:11
You must not have sexual relations with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, for that would shame your family.
You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your father’s wife, born to your father; she is your sister.
You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative. Lev 20:19Exo 6:20
You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.
You must not dishonor your father’s brother by approaching his wife to have sexual relations with her; she is your aunt. Lev 20:20
You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your son’s wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her. Lev 20:12Ezk 22:11Gen 38:26Gen 38:18-19
You must not have sexual relations with your brother’s wife; that would shame your brother. Deu 25:5Lev 20:21Mat 22:24Mrk 12:19Luk 3:19Mat 14:3-4Mrk 6:17
You must not have sexual relations with both a woman and her daughter. You are not to marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and have sexual relations with her. They are close relatives; it is depraved. Lev 20:14Amo 2:7Deu 27:23
You must not take your wife’s sister as a rival wife and have sexual relations with her while your wife is still alive. Gen 29:28Gen 30:15Mal 2:151Sa 1:6-8Gen 4:19Exo 26:3
You must not approach a woman to have sexual relations with her during her menstrual period. Lev 15:24Lev 20:18Ezk 22:10Ezk 18:6Lev 15:19Lev 12:2
You must not lie carnally with your neighbor’s wife and thus defile yourself with her. Exo 20:141Co 6:9Heb 13:4Lev 20:10Mat 5:27-282Sa 11:3-4Deu 5:18Pro 6:25
You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed 3to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD. Deu 12:31Deu 18:10Lev 20:2-5Lev 19:12Lev 22:321Ki 11:331Ki 11:7Act 7:43
You must not lie with a man as with a woman; that is an abomination. Lev 20:131Co 6:9Rom 1:26-271Ti 1:10Jud 1:71Ki 14:24Deu 23:18Jdg 19:22
You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion. Exo 22:19Lev 20:15-16Lev 20:12Deu 27:21
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. Deu 18:12Lev 18:30Lev 20:22-231Co 3:17Deu 12:31Jer 44:4Lev 18:3Mat 15:18-20 Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. Lev 18:28Jer 2:7Lev 20:22-23Jer 9:9Psa 106:38Num 35:33-34Deu 18:12Ezk 36:17-18
But you are to keep My statutes and ordinances, and you must not commit any of these abominations—neither your native-born nor the foreigner who lives among you. Lev 18:5Deu 12:32Deu 4:1-2Deu 4:40Jhn 14:15Jhn 14:21-23Jhn 15:14Lev 17:10 For the men who were in the land before you committed all these abominations, and the land has become defiled. 1Ki 14:242Ch 36:142Ki 16:32Ki 21:2Deu 20:18Deu 23:18Deu 25:16Deu 27:15 So if you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it spewed out the nations before you. Lev 18:25Lev 20:22Rev 3:16Ezk 36:17Jer 9:19Ezk 36:13Rom 8:22
Therefore anyone who commits any of these abominations must be cut off from among his people. Exo 12:15Lev 17:10Lev 20:6 You must keep My charge not to practice any of the abominable customs that were practiced before you, so that you do not defile yourselves by them. I am the LORD your God.” Lev 20:23Deu 18:9-12Lev 22:9Lev 18:2-4Lev 18:26-27Deu 11:1