Leviticus, 18

5. Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I [am] the LORD.

Versets liés à Leviticus, 18:

Leviticus 18 deals with sexual prohibitions in God's law for the people of Israel. The verses selected below deal with different aspects of prohibited sexual relationships and their consequences:

Deuteronomy 27:20: "Damn one who lie with his father's wife, for he profaped his father's bed." This verse condemns sexual intercourse with the father's wife, one of the prohibitions mentioned in Leviticus 18:8.

Proverbs 6:32: "He who commits adultery has no judgment; destroys himself." This verse warns of the severity of adultery, a sexual sin forbidden in Leviticus 18:20.

1 Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be mistaken: neither unclean nor adulterers, nor effective nor homosexuals." This verse mentions some of the sexual sins forbidden in Leviticus 18 and reinforces the importance of obeying God's law to inherit God's kingdom.

II Samuel 13:14: "But he did not want to hear and, being stronger, raped it and possessed it." This verse describes Tamar's rape by Amnon, a forbidden sexual sin in Leviticus 18:25.

Romans 1:26-27: "Because of this, God surrendered them to infamous passions; because even women have changed the natural way of their intimate relationships by another, contrary to nature, similarly, men, leaving women's natural contact as well , they inflamed mutually in their sensuality, committing a clumsy men with men, and receiving in themselves the deserved punishment of their error. " This verse mentions the sin of homosexuality, which is prohibited in Leviticus 18:22.