Sentences with phrase «prohibition of adultery»
He who indeed avoids adultery, but keeps lust in his heart, has not understood the prohibition of adultery, which requires of him complete purity.
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You shall not commit any of a series of sexual prohibitions, which include adultery, incest, sodomy, and bestiality.
Every act is included, from Genesis 1:28, «Be fruitful and multiply,» to the prohibitions of murder and adultery.
When we get into the New Testament where the prohibition against adultery is more clearly and frequently stated, there are numerous examples of Christians who commit adultery and yet are still considered eternal children of God.
Its content need not detain us except to observe that the codification of Hebrew law begins, not in a statement of general ethical principles such as the prohibitions of murder, adultery, theft, lying, and covetousness found in the Decalogue of Exod.
And since the prohibition specifically deals with adultery (implying the violation of marital relationships) rather than fornication (although this is surely also, by intention, prohibited in the commandment), the integrity of three and even four persons may be involved in a single case of adultery.
It is possible that the more general prohibition in the succinct commandment «You shall not steal» bears still the weight of indictment in man - stealing; as interpreted here, stealing is as direct and as powerful an assault on human integrity and the God - man - man community as is murder or adultery.
In other words, God was not prohibiting the kind of homosexuality we see today; He forbade the sort which incorporated idolatry.Response # 1: The prohibitions against homosexuality in Leviticus 18 and 20 appear alongside other sexual sins - adultery and incest, for example - which are forbidden in both Old and New Testaments, completely apart from the Levitical codes.