1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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!

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.