FORNICATION 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Greek - porneia This word is used to include all kinds of sexual sins It is the origin of the english word – pornography In NT times – it was often associated with pagan worship and idolatry

Fornication includes: Incest 1 Corinthians 5:1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles--that a man has his father's wife!

Fornication includes: Incest Sexual abuse James 4:3-4 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Fornication includes: Incest Sexual abuse Bestiality Leviticus 18:23 Nor shall you mate with any animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.

Fornication includes: Incest Sexual abuse Bestiality Rape Deuteronomy 22:25 But if a man finds a betrothed young woman in the countryside, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.

Fornication includes: Incest Sexual abuse Bestiality Rape Homosexuality Jude 1:7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Fornication includes: Incest Sexual abuse Bestiality Rape Homosexuality Adultery Leviticus 18:20 Moreover you shall not lie carnally with your neighbor's wife, to defile yourself with her.

Fornication includes: Incest Sexual abuse Bestiality Rape Homosexuality Adultery Necrophilia / Pedophilia Necrophilia is sex with a dead body Pedophilia is sex with a young child or infant

Fornication includes: Incest Sexual abuse Bestiality Rape Homosexuality Adultery Necrophilia / Pedophilia Prostitution 1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. Leviticus 19:29 Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness.

Adultery / Fornication Sometimes they are both mentioned in the same passage or context Sometimes they are used interchangeably Galatians 5:19 – both are used here 1 Corinthians 6:9 – both are listed Romans 1:29 – only fornication mentioned James 2:11 – Adultery stands for fornication 2 Peter 2:14 – Adultery stands for fornication

Adultery / Fornication God cares about your salvation, your worship, and your obedience to the gospel. God also cares about your moral life. We live in a “porneia” world. Many avoid the words I have used. Make love Fooled around Gay Cheated

Conclusion: God went to great effort to describe the sexual sins that are forbidden. God wants us to be pure in our moral. Fornication is a sin. Any sin, including fornication, can keep us out of heaven – unless we repent, seek forgiveness and change our conduct.