Acts 15:20

20 but should write to them to abstain from the things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been strangled, and from blood.

1 Corinthians 10:7-8

Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.

Revelation 2:14

14 But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality.

Revelation 2:20

20 But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants [1] to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

1 Corinthians 6:18

18 Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin [2] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Translation Notes

[1] 2:20 Greek bondservants
[2] 6:18 Or Every sin

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