Which verse in the Bible contains the word fornicate and tells you not to do it?

Question

NIV says sexual immorality. King James was a moron.

Answer 1

You can look in these verses: The Bible says that people have been fornicating for ages (2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19-21; 1 Corinthians 5:1; Jude 7). (Fornication comes from a Greek word, porneia, and is correctly understood as any form of sexual immorality.) The Bible says that even Christians have been guilty of committing fornication or immorality (2 Corinthians 12:20-21). Also check out this site: http://www.mindspring.com/~frvwcoc/fornication.html

Answer 2

The following is directly from the Bible Encyclopedia Insight on the Scriptures:

The Hebrew verb za·nah′ and its related forms convey the idea of harlotry, immoral intercourse, fornication, or prostitution. (Ge 38:24; Ex 34:16; Ho 1:2; Le 19:29) The Greek word translated “fornication” is por·nei′a. Regarding the meanings of por·nei′a, B. F. Westcott in his book Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians (1906, p. 76) says: “This is a general term for all unlawful intercourse, (I) adultery: Hos. ii. 2, 4 (LXX.); Matt. v. 32; xix. 9; (2) unlawful marriage, I Cor. v. I; (3) fornication, the common sense as here [Eph 5:3].” Bauer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (revised by F. W. Gingrich and F. Danker, 1979, p. 693) defines por·nei′a as “prostitution, unchastity, fornication, of every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse.” Porneia is understood to involve the grossly immoral use of the genital organ(s) of at least one human; also there must have been two or more parties (including another consenting human or a beast), whether of the same sex or the opposite sex. (Jude 7) The unlawful act of a rapist is fornication, but, of course, that does not make the person who is forcibly raped also a fornicator.

In the King James Version, by the way, 1 Corinthians 1:5 uses the term fornication.

Answer 3

Fornication is mentioned many times in the New Testament (Matt. 5:32; 19:9; John 8:41; Acts 15:20, 29; 21:25; Rom. 1:29; 1 Cor 5:1, 6:13, 18, 7:2; 10:8; 2 Cor 12:21; Gal 5:19; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5; 1 Thess. 4:3; Jude 1:7; Rev. 2:14, 20-21; 9:21; 14:8; 17:2,4).
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Answer 4

The word fornicate is not in the King James Version of the Bible.

Answer 5

; 1Co_5:1; 1Co_6:13, 1Co_6:18; 2Co_12:21; Gal_5:19; Eph_5:3; Col_3:5; 1Th_4:3; Rev_2:21; Rev_9:21; in the plural in 1Co_7:2; in Mat_5:32; Mat_19:9 it stands for, or includes, adultery; it is distinguished from it in Mat_15:19; Mar_7:21; (b) metaphorically, of "the association of pagan idolatry with doctrines of, and professed adherence to, the Christian faith," Rev_14:8; Rev_17:2, Rev_17:4; Rev_18:3; Rev_19:2; some suggest this as the sense in Rev_2:21.


denotes "a man who indulges in fornication, a fornicator," 1Co_5:9-11; 1Co_6:9; Eph_5:5, RV; 1Ti_1:10, RV; Heb_12:16; Heb_13:4, RV; Rev_21:8; Rev_22:15, RV (AV, "whoremonger").


"to commit fornication," is used (a) literally, Mar_10:19; 1Co_6:18; 1Co_10:8; Rev_2:14, Rev_2:20, see (a) and (b) above; (b) metaphorically, Rev_17:2; Rev_18:3, Rev_18:9.


a strengthened form of No. 1 (ek, used intensively), "to give oneself up to fornication," implying excessive indulgence, Jud_1:7.

Answer 6

There are several verses regarding sexual immorality. Specific verses that say "fornication" there are several, here are just a few; Mat. 5:32, John 8:41, Acts 15:20, etc., etc.

Fornication refers to penetrate, it does not refer to kissing or petting, although, those can lead to fornication and each person must know their own limits.

Fornication refers to sex before marriage and adultry.

Answer 7

Few example -

"God will judge fornicators and adulterers." (Heb. 13:4.)

"Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord." (1 Cor. 6:13.)

"Flee from fornication." (1 Cor. 6:18.)

"Neither let us practice fornication, as some of them committed fornication." (in Numbers 25:1.) (1 Cor. 10:8.)

"Deaden, therefore, your body members that are upon the earth as respects fornication, uncleanness, sexual appetite, hurtful desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry." (Col. 3:5 -

"For this is what God wills, the sanctifying of YOU, that YOU abstain from fornication. that each one of YOU should know how to get possession of his own vessel in sanctification in honor."

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Answer 8

1 Thessalonians 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication. (King James version)

Answer 9

Like many, these examples Ac 15:20, 29; 21:2 highlands the need to avoid fornication: accepting in the marriage arrangement.

The apostle Paul was inspired to write: "For the holy spirit and we ourselves have favored adding no further burden to YOU, except these necessary things, to keep abstaining from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from FORNICATION. If YOU carefully keep yourselves from these things, YOU will prosper. Good health to YOU!”

21:2 READS: "As for the believers from among the nations, we have sent out, rendering our decision that they should keep themselves from what is sacrificed to idols as well as from blood and what is strangled and from FORNICATION"
Of interest is the wording of the The Kingdom Interlinear Translation: “Be you fleeing from the fornication.”
He tells us that whenever the temptation or the opportunity presents itself to commit fornication, we are not to temporize or debate about it but flee at once. Joseph, the son of the patriarch Jacob, set a fine example for us in this regard. He fled when importuned by the wife of his master Potiphar.—Gen. 39:12.

Finally Paul speaks of a need to change when he wrote: (1 Corinthians. 6:9-11)
"What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither FORNICATORS, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. And yet that is what some of YOU were. But YOU have been washed clean, but YOU have been sanctified, but YOU have been declared righteous in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God."

Answer 10

The one that contains the word fornicate and tells you not to do it.