1 Corinthians 5:9-11
[9]I wrote you in my [previous] letter not to associate [closely and habitually] with unchaste (impure) people–
[10]Not [meaning of course that you must] altogether shun the immoral people of this world, or the greedy graspers and cheats and thieves or idolaters, since otherwise you would need to get out of the world and human society altogether!
[11]But now I write to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of [Christian] brother if he is known to be guilty of immorality or greed, or is an idolater [whose soul is devoted to any object that usurps the place of God], or is a person with a foul tongue [railing, abusing, reviling, slandering], or is a drunkard or a swindler or a robber. [No] you must not so much as eat with such a person.
Acts 15:29
[29]That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from [tasting] blood and from [eating the meat of animals] that have been strangled and from sexual impurity. If you keep yourselves from these things, you will do well. Farewell [be strong]!
Galatians 5:19
[19]Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency,
Ephesians 4:19
[19]In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand].
1 Peter 4:1-3
[1]SO, SINCE Christ suffered in the flesh for us, for you, arm yourselves with the same thought and purpose [patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God]. For whoever has suffered in the flesh [having the mind of Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [has stopped pleasing himself and the world, and pleases God],
[2]So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills.
[3]For the time that is past already suffices for doing what the Gentiles like to do–living [as you have done] in shameless, insolent wantonness, in lustful desires, drunkenness, reveling, drinking bouts and abominable, lawless idolatries.
1 Corinthians 10:8
[8]We must not gratify evil desire and indulge in immorality as some of them did–and twenty-three thousand [suddenly] fell dead in a single day! [Num. 25:1-18.]
1 Thessalonians 4:3-7
[3]For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice,
[4]That each one of you should know how to possess (control, manage) his own body in consecration (purity, separated from things profane) and honor,
[5]Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will,
[6]That no man transgress and overreach his brother and defraud him in this matter or defraud his brother in business. For the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we have already warned you solemnly and told you plainly.
[7]For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity].
Revelation 2:14-16
[14]Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: you have some people there who are clinging to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to set a trap and a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, [to entice them] to eat food that had been sacrificed to idols and to practice lewdness [giving themselves up to sexual vice]. [Num. 25:1, 2; 31:16.]
[15]You also have some who in a similar way are clinging to the teaching of the Nicolaitans [those corrupters of the people] which thing I hate.
[16]Repent [then]! Or else I will come to you quickly and fight against them with the sword of My mouth.
