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Abortion
Jeremiah 1:5: “I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb. Before you were born, I set you apart and appointed you as my prophet to the nations.”
Psalm 139:13: “You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
Addiction
1 Corinthians 3:16-17: “Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.”
2 Peter 2:19: “They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.”
Adultery
1 Corinthians 3:16-17: “Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.”
2 Peter 2:19: “They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.”
Alcohol
Leviticus 10:9: “You and your descendants must never drink wine or any other alcoholic drink before going into the Tabernacle. If you do, you will die. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation.”
Galatians 5:19–21: “When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”
Backsliding
Hebrews 3:12: “Be careful then, dear brothers and sisters. Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God.”
Jeremiah 2:19: “Your wickedness will bring its own punishment. Your turning from Me will shame you. You will see what an evil, bitter thing it is to abandon the Lord your God and not to fear Him. I, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”
Live-In-Relationship
Hebrews 13:4: “Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.”
1 Corinthians 6:9-10: “Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.”
Obscene Dancing
Matthew 11:17: “‘We played wedding songs, and you didn’t dance, so we played funeral songs, and you didn’t mourn.’”
Matthew 14:6: “But at a birthday party for Herod, Herodias’s daughter performed a dance that greatly pleased him,”
Divorce
14 You cry out, “Why doesn’t the Lord accept my worship?” I’ll tell you why! Because the Lord witnessed the vows you and your wife made when you were young. But you have been unfaithful to her, though she remained your faithful partner, the wife of your marriage vows.
15 Didn’t the Lord make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his. And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth.
16 “For I hate divorce!” says the Lord, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.”
31 “You have heard the law that says, ‘A man can divorce his wife by merely giving her a written notice of divorce.’ 32 But I say that a man who divorces his wife, unless she has been unfaithful, causes her to commit adultery. And anyone who marries a divorced woman also commits adultery.
Drugs, Illegal narcotics
1 Peter 5:8: “Stay alert! Watch out for your great enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour.”
1 Peter 2:11: “Dear friends, I warn you as ’temporary residents and foreigners’ to keep away from worldly desires that wage war against your very souls.”
Face Painting and Female Adornment
1 In the same way, you wives must accept the authority of your husbands. Then, even if some refuse to obey the Good News, your godly lives will speak to them without any words. They will be won over. 2 by observing your pure and reverent lives. 3 Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty of fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. 4 You should clothe yourselves instead with the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. 5 This is how the holy women of old made themselves beautiful. They trusted God and accepted the authority of their husbands.
Flesh, Lust of the
Matthew 5:28: But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 John 2:16: For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.
Fornication
1 Corinthians 6:13: You say, ‘Food was made for the stomach, and the stomach for food.’ (This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them.) But you can’t say that our bodies were made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.
1 Corinthians 7:2: But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.
Fortune tellers, Mediums
Leviticus 20:6: I will also turn against those who commit spiritual prostitution by putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. I will cut them off from the community.
Leviticus 19:31: Do not defile yourselves by turning to mediums or to those who consult the spirits of the dead. I am the Lord your God.
Gambling
Proverbs 13:11: Wealth from get-rich-quick schemes quickly disappears; wealth from hard work grows over time.
Proverbs 20:21: An inheritance obtained too early in life is not a blessing in the end.
Greed/ Materialism
Ecclesiastes 5:10: Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
Hebrews 13:5: Don’t love money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, ‘I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.’
Homosexuality
Leviticus 18:22: Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10: Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, 10 or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God.
Idolatry
3 You must not have any other god but me. 4 You must not make for yourself an idol of any kind or an image of anything in the heavens or on the earth or in the sea. 5 You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God who will not tolerate your affection for any other gods. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations of those who reject me. 6 But I lavish unfailing love for a thousand generations on those who love me and obey my commands.
1 John 5:21: Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.
Incest
Deuteronomy 27:22: Cursed is anyone who has sexual intercourse with his sister, whether she is the daughter of his father or his mother. And all the people will reply, ‘Amen.’
11 If a man has sexual relations with his father’s wife, he has defiled his father. Both the man and the woman must be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense. 12 If a man has sexual relations with his daughter-in-law, both must be put to death. They have committed a perverse act and are guilty of a capital offense. 13 If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense. 14 If a man marries both a woman and her mother, he has committed a wicked act. The man and both women must be burned to death to wipe out such wickedness from among you.
Lusts of the flesh
1 John 2:16: For the world offers only a craving for physical pleasure, a craving for everything we see, and pride in our achievements and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are from this world.
Galatians 5:16: So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves.
Matthew 5:28: But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Marrying outside the faith prohibited
1 Corinthians 7:39: A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but only if he loves the Lord.
14 Don’t team up with those who are unbelievers. How can righteousness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness? 15 What harmony can there be between Christ and the devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?
Deuteronomy 7:3–4: You must not intermarry with them. Do not let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters, 4 for they will lead your children away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and he will quickly destroy you.
Masturbation
16 Whenever a man has an emission of semen, he must bathe his entire body in water, and he will remain ceremonially unclean until the next evening. 17 Any clothing or leather with semen on it must be washed in water, and it will remain unclean until evening.
1 Corinthians 6:18: Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5: God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
New Age Movement
John 14:6: Jesus told him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.’
1 John 2:22: And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an antichrist.
1 John 4:3: But if someone claims to be a prophet and does not acknowledge the truth about Jesus, that person is not from God. Such a person has the spirit of the Antichrist, which you heard is coming into the world and indeed is already here.
Matthew 24:4–5: Jesus told them, ‘Don’t let anyone mislead you, 5 for many will come in my name, claiming, I am the Messiah. They will deceive many.’
New Age Spiritism
Isaiah 8:19-22: Someone may say to you, Let’s ask the mediums and those who consult the spirits of the dead. With their whisperings and mutterings, they will tell us what to do. But shouldn’t people ask God for guidance? Should the living seek guidance from the dead? 20 Look to God’s instructions and teachings! People who contradict his word are completely in the dark. 21 They will go from one place to another, weary and hungry. And because they are hungry, they will rage and curse their king and their God. They will look up to heaven 22 and down at the earth, but wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness.
Leviticus 20:6: I will also turn against those who commit spiritual prostitution by putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. I will cut them off from the community.
1 John 4:1: Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God. For there are many false prophets in the world.
Pornography
Matthew 5:28: But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20: Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body. 19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
2 Timothy 2:22: Run from anything that stimulates youthful lusts. Instead, pursue righteous living, faithfulness, love, and peace. Enjoy the companionship of those who call on the Lord with pure hearts.
Prostitution
17 No Israelite, whether man or woman, may become a temple prostitute. 18 When you are bringing an offering to fulfill a vow, you must not bring to the house of the Lord your God any offering from the earnings of a prostitute, whether a man or a woman, for both are detestable to the Lord your God.
Proverbs 6:24-26: It will keep you from the immoral woman, from the smooth tongue of a promiscuous woman. 25 Don’t lust for her beauty. Don’t let her coy glances seduce you. 26 For a prostitute will bring you to poverty, but sleeping with another man’s wife will cost you your life.
Jude 1:7: And don’t forget Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and serve as a warning of the eternal fire of God’s judgment.
Seven deadly sins, The
1. Pride – Arrogance & Self-Exaltation
Proverbs 16:18: Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.
James 4:6: And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.’
2. Greed – Excessive Desire for Wealth or Power
1 Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
Ecclesiastes 5:10: Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!
3. Lust – Impure and Uncontrolled Desires
Matthew 5:28: But I say, anyone who even looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
1 Corinthians 6:18: Run from sexual sin! No other sin so clearly affects the body as this one does. For sexual immorality is a sin against your own body.
4. Envy – Jealousy of Others’ Success or Possessions
Proverbs 14:30: A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body; jealousy is like cancer in the bones.
James 3:16: For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.
5. Gluttony – Overindulgence, Lack of Self-Control
Proverbs 23:20-21: Do not carouse with drunkards or feast with gluttons, for they are on their way to poverty, and too much sleep clothes them in rags.
Philippians 3:19: They are headed for destruction. Their god is their appetite, they brag about shameful things, and they think only about this life here on earth.
6. Wrath (Anger) – Uncontrolled Hatred or Revenge
Ephesians 4:26-27: And don’t sin by letting anger control you. Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil.
James 1:19-20: Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. Human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires.
7. Sloth (Laziness) – Failure to Do What is Right
Proverbs 6:9-11: But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
Colossians 3:23: Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.
Sexual sins
Hebrews 13:4: Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
Colossians 3:5: So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual immorality, impurity, lust, and evil desires. Don’t be greedy, for a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
1 Thessalonians 4:4: Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor—
Sins
James 4:17: Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.
19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Proverbs 28:13: People who conceal their sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn from them, they will receive mercy.
Smoking tobacco
19 Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself, 20 for God bought you with a high price. So you must honor God with your body.
7 Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8 Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit.
Suicide
Ecclesiastes 7:17: On the other hand, don’t be too wicked either. Don’t be a fool! Why die before your time?
1 Corinthians 3:17: God will destroy anyone who destroys this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Exodus 20:13: You must not murder.
Teenage pregnancy
3 God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. 4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— 5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
Hebrews 13:4: Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
Ephesians 5:3: Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God’s people.
Temptation
1 Corinthians 10:13: The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
Matthew 26:41: Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak!
James 4:7: So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Virginity, Woman losing her
Hebrews 13:4: Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8: God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. 4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— 5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. 6 Never harm or cheat a fellow believer in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before. 7 God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. 8 Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Romans 12:1-2: And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Wine
Ephesians 5:18: Don’t be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Proverbs 20:1: Wine produces mockers; alcohol leads to brawls. Those led astray by drink cannot be wise.
Romans 14:21: It is better not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything else if it might cause another believer to stumble.
Witchcraft
Leviticus 19:31: Do not defile yourselves by turning to mediums or to those who consult the spirits of the dead. I am the Lord your God.
Exodus 22:18: You must not allow a sorceress to live.
Leviticus 20:6: I will also turn against those who commit spiritual prostitution by putting their trust in mediums or in those who consult the spirits of the dead. I will cut them off from the community.
What the Bible Says About Itself
2 Timothy 3:16-17: All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. 17 God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work.
Hebrews 4:12: For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.
Psalm 119:105: Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.
What the Bible Says About God
Isaiah 40:28: Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.
Revelation 1:8: I am the Alpha and the Omega—the beginning and the end, says the Lord God. I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come—the Almighty One.
Psalm 18:30: God’s way is perfect. All the Lord’s promises prove true. He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.
What the Bible Says About Creation
Romans 1:20: For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
Genesis 1:1-5: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, Let there be light, and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light day and the darkness night. And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
Genesis 1:26: Then God said, ‘Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.’
What the Bible Says About Sin and its Remedy
John 3:16: For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 6:23: For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.
John 14:6: Jesus told him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
Salvation is by God’s grace through faith
8 God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Acts 4:12: There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.
Matthew 7:21: Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter.
Characteristics of New Life in Christ:
2 Corinthians 5:17: This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Ephesians 4:22-24: Throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception. 23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. 24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.
Colossians 3:9-10: Don’t lie to each other, for you have stripped off your old sinful nature and all its wicked deeds. 10 Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him.
Ezekiel 11:19: And I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart,
1 Peter 1:3: All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation,
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