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.

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 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 ...

April 4, 2019 - 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. If a man raped a woman, that man was to be executed (Deuteronomy 22:25–27). The law specified that in a sexual assault the woman was responsible to actively resist the abuser and “scream for help” (Deuteronomy 22:24). One thing these graphic stories in the Old Testament tell us is that a world without God’s law is animalistic.

June 26, 2025 - This reality makes studying sexual violence in Scripture all the more pressing. Paul said all of Scripture—including what we might consider the R-rated stories of the Old Testament—is God-breathed and can train us in righteousness (2 Tim. 3:16–17). It’s not that we skip over such stories, but that we tend to use euphemisms when telling them. We don’t pay close attention to the details, and as a result miss what the biblical authors intended to communicate.

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.

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).

September 28, 2025 - Also often translated as "genitals" or "secret parts", Scholz believes that a more accurate translation of the word in context is "cunt", as first suggested by J. Cheryl Exum's The Ethics of Biblical Violence against Women (1995). They and other scholars such as Johnny Miles (2006) conclude that this stripping of women's clothes to expose their genitals refers to sexual violence as God's punishment for women's arrogance and pride.

3 weeks ago - Two different words for prostitute occur in the Hebrew Bible, zonah (זונה) and kedeshah (קדשה). This led to the belief that kedeshah were not ordinary prostitutes, but sacred harlots who worked in fertility temples. Tamar (Genesis) traded sex with her father-in-law Judah for ownership of a goat. Her motive was fulfilling what she saw as her family duty, namely producing offspring for Judah. ... God tells the prophet Hosea to marry Gomer, a prostitute.

January 10, 2025 - To sum up, to practice pagan cultic prostitution or to bring wages of secular prostitution as offerings to the Suzerain (Ruler) God would be to commit a detestable act in God's eyes, for both of these activities were an abomination to the Lord God.

July 3, 2013 - According to Scripture, any sexual activity outside the marriage union of one woman and one man is a perversion and condemned by God (1 Corinthians 6:18; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Thessalonians 4:3). The New Testament lists some specific sexual perversions such as homosexuality, adultery, and fornication, stating that those who practice such aberrant behaviors “will not inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 6:9–10; Galatians 5:19–21).

The letter encourages believers to stand firm in their faith and persevere against those who seek to divide the church and distract from the gospel. Just like in the Old Testament (Jude 5-16), false teaching in the church is a deadly disease that requires constant vigilance from God’s people.

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.

The Old Testament finds adultery a ready figure for apostasy from the Lord and attachment to false gods, as can be seen in Isa.57.3; Jer.3.8-Jer.3.9; Jer.13.27; Ezek.23.27, Ezek.23.43; Hos.2.4; and similar passages.

Bible verses about Sexual Perversion

The LXX uses it predominately for the Hebrew word “zanah”—”commit fornication, be a harlot.” This is sexual involvement with humans or false gods. Israel is the bride of God and “fornication” (idolatry) with other gods affects the relationship. (See the minor prophet Hosea who is told to retrieve his unfaithful wife out of harlotry as an image of God’s care for apostate Israel.) In Papyri and other sources the word is has the meaning of “disease,” “active excess of evil.” The Patristic period after the New Testament uses the word in various manuscripts with meanings of “fornication,” “unchastity,” “sexual impurity,” “illicit intercourse,” “prostitution,” “adultery (as grounds for divorce)” and “idolatry.” So, the question is “what did God intend for the word to convey to the early Church?”

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.

December 24, 2016 - Malachi 2 is a tricky passage whose translation is disputed, but we can be confident in this: What may have been opaque in the Old Testament, when divorce was permitted, is crystal clear in the New Testament when divorce is forbidden except in the case of adultery (see Mark 10:1-12). God especially hates divorce when the object is the exploitation of another person as in Deuteronomy 24:4 where it seems the emphasis is on a husband marrying to receive a wife’s dowry, divorcing her, then later marrying her a second time to receive a second dowry. To summarize, God hates sexual sin, he hates any defilement of the gift of sexuality, and he hates any dishonoring of marriage, the only right context for sexuality.