At first, he settled near Sodom, but eventually moved into town, where he was "… greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard)" (2 Peter 2:7–8). Ultimately God delivered Lot from Sodom but rained down burning sulfur on the perverse inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah and nearby towns (Genesis 19:24–25). The punishment those wicked inhabitants received pictures the punishment that awaits false teachers.

May 24, 2017 - In Unger’s Bible Dictionary under False Gods you can get an education on the gods that Israel worshiped. In this study you will discover that illegal sexual activity was, in fact, worship of that god. Perhaps that is why there is such an increase in sexual perversion.

September 23, 2014 - Pagan idol worship often involved perverse and immoral sexual acts performed in the temple of a false god. When we use our physical bodies for immoral purposes, we are imitating pagan worship by profaning God’s holy temple with acts He calls detestable (1 Corinthians 6:9–11). Biblical prohibitions against sexual immorality are often coupled with warnings against “impurity” (Romans 1:24; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19).

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4 It's not right that dirty stories, foolish talk, or obscene jokes should be mentioned among you either. Instead, give thanks [to God]. 5 You know very well that no person who is involved in sexual sin, perversion, or greed (which means worshiping wealth) can have any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

September 4, 2018 - Baal and Asherah are often mentioned together in Scripture. Sometimes Baal is mentioned with the goddess Ashtoreth who, in Canaanite mythology, was closely related to Asherah and may have been for a time considered the same goddess.

What the Bible says about Sexual Perversion (From Forerunner Commentary) · God, without mixing words, judges, "You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination" (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13). Paul includes lesbianism in the condemnation: "For even their women exchanged the natural ...

November 21, 2024 - Not only is the city of Sodom given over to homosexuality, but homosexual gang rape of even visitors happens there. They were willing to murder to satisfy their perverted lust (19:1-11). God rescued Lot’s family from there before His judgement fell upon those wicked cities (19:12-29). The sexual perversion of the culture of Sodom had greatly affected Lot’s family.

October 16, 2019 - The gods they served were wood, stone, and metal just as the gods America has served are made. Pursuit of these material gods waste countless years just as it did in biblical days. When Ashtoreth was worshiped by the Israelite’s, all manner of sexual perversions followed.

Bible verses about Sexual Perversion

Romans 1:24-28 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.

April 10, 2025 - What does the Bible diagnose as the root of human sexual perversion — what we often and rightly call sexual brokenness? We can see it clearly in Romans 1:21–26, For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

April 4, 2019 - In our sinful world, God’s gift of sexuality is often used to dominate, victimize, and control, resulting in the crimes of rape, sodomy, molestation, and other forms of sexual assault. The law God gave to the Israelites dealt with sexual assault as a perversion of God’s design for marriage and sex. The Bible condemns rape whenever it is mentioned.

August 6, 2024 - And I quote: “To work for an end to all distinctions based on gender.” Do you think they include sexuality in that? Oh, yes. Many of them are lesbians. They definitely include that, and that includes who can be parents, who can adopt, who should be under tax protection, the whole thing. But the root attack is on gender, that there should be no distinctions whatsoever. Well, that’s not biblical. And the problem is the church is increasingly buying into this way of thinking. Let’s reestablish gender the way God intended.

We know that the “great prostitute” or “whore” or “harlot” (depending on which translation you are reading) described here is a symbol for Babylon because we are told this explicitly in v. 5 – “And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: ‘Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.’” And we know that it is primarily the religious dimension of Babylon that is in view because this “prostitute” is said to commit “sexual immorality” and to have caused those who dwell on the earth to get drunk “with the wine” of her “sexual immo

God acknowledged, “Every inclination of · man’s thoughts and heart is only evil all the time” (Gen 6:5). All perversion is a departure from truth and originates in the heart, the inner ‘control centre’ that is full of deceit and consequently can be influenced by Satan’s temptations (Jer 17:9; Mt 15:18,19).

May 4, 2021 - John the Baptist condemned King ... practice sexual perversion are warned they have no place in God’s kingdom (1 Corinthians 6:9). Jesus condemned not only physical adultery, but also adultery in one’s mind or heart, which would include pornography (Matthew 5:27–32). Prostitution is condemned in both Old and New Testaments (Deuteronomy 23:18; 1 Corinthians 6:16–17); at the same time, the Bible provides examples ...

The “due recompense” which the apostle Paul spoke of regarding sexual perversion is chillingly evident in the world today, as it was even in Old Testament times. ... In Romans, chapter 1, Paul describes the debauchery that was characteristic of the ancient pagan world. A common vice in that day, as in our own time, was that of homosexuality. The apostle writes: “For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due” (vv.

3 Did Balaam’s bait work? Yes. Thousands of Israelite men committed “sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.” They also began to worship false gods, including a disgusting sex god, the Baal of Peor.

February 8, 2024 - Specific examples of sexual perversions mentioned in the Bible include homosexuality, adultery, and fornication. These behaviors are seen as deviating from God’s intended design for human sexuality and are explicitly stated as unacceptable in multiple biblical references.